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Originally Posted by thijso
I am *really* interested to know what became of this. Do I understand correctly that you got a system working where you could just apt-get install stuff on the iliad, scotty1024?
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Creating a debian chroot in any ARM device is really simple. You only have to create a tarball of the filesystem of another ARM device (nslu2 with Debian ARM installed, i.e.) and put that in a CF os SD card. Then chroot to it and it's done.
If you don't have a Debian ARM device liying somewhere in your house, you have to create a debian chroot using debootstrap. Take care that you want to select the arm architecture, not the newer armel one (it requires a somwhat recent 2.6 kernel to work, and the iliad still uses a 2.4 kernel).
A third alternative is using the zaurus-debian-*.tgz from
http://pocketworkstation.org/, but it is a rather old debian (woody? sarge?), and you would have to fix /etc/apt/sources.list and dist-upgrade to the latest.
Note: I myself have a slug with debian etch, and a zaurus with debian in a chroot, but it is a very "dirty" installation and not very reasonable to distribute :-/.