A year ago I got a half-sized biscuit single board computer PCM-4823L from http://www.advantech.com. Now I finally found some time to tackle with embedding a Linux distribution into this PC.
I decided to go for DSL.
Installation to a Compact Flash (as root)
1. Got an empty CF, and create 3 partitions ext2/3: 100MB (> 50MB), 100MB, and swap 64-128MB
2. Install grub boot loader
2.1 Mount first partition
2.2 Change to the mounted CF (eg: cd /mnt/cf)
2.3 Install grub:
grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=. /dev/<rootdevice>
Replace <rootdevice> with the corresponding file which represents your USB storage – my (/dev/sde ) do not use any number it should be MBR
3. Copy the DSL image content to CF
mount [/path_to/]current.iso /mnt/loop/ -o loop cp -vR /mnt/loop/* /mnt/cf/
4. Create in ./boot/grub/menu.lst new file: menu.lst with following content:
timeout 10 default 0 title DSL root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 3 vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nopcmcia nousb noapm nomce noddc nofirewire frugal 2 dma lang=de restore=hda2 home=hda2 opt=hda2 host=DSL dsl mydsl=hda2 initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz title DSL-test root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 ro lang=de frugal initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz boot
5. Check the file /mnt/cf/boot/grub/device.map and update drive mapping acordingly e.g.
(hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb (hd2) /dev/hdc (hd3) /dev/hde
6. Remaster DSL:
6.1 Extract KNOPPIX image from cd iso image
6.2 Extract the KNOPPIX file system (cloop rpm will be needed):
$ extract_compressed_fs /media/cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX - > uncompressed-image $ mkdir mnt1 $ sudo mount -o loop uncompressed-image mnt1 $ cp -a mnt1 extracted $ rmdir extracted/.rr_moved $ sudo umount mnt1 $ cd extracted
6.3 Customize DSL …
6.4 Compress file system back to the KNOPPIX
$ cd .. $ mkisofs -hide-rr-moved -allow-leading-dots -R -l -V "KNOPPIX ISO9660" -v -allow-multidot $SAND_BOX | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > KNOPPIX2
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