[ELDK] Debian on Lite5200

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Chris,

In message <54B231DABF5042AD9181AB807F2AAA25 at kos> you wrote:
> Hi fellow denxers,
> 
> I have followed the procedure in 
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/AN2004_08_DebianOnPowerpcInstallationHowto
> on a Lite5200 board with kernel 2.6.19.2 from ELDK4.1 and 
> lite5200_defconfig.

Please be aware that this document is based  on  a  2.4.21-rc1  Linux
kernel  and  Debian  GNU/Linux  3.0  (woody)  -  in other words: this
describes a really, really old state of the software, and many things
have changed since.

> I know the Debian installation is old, but I wanted to follow the 
> procedure 'to the letter' before exploring.

There are more recent versions of application notes that may be more
interesting to you - see for example

- "Installing Debian Etch on AMCC PPC 440EPx 'Sequoia' Board" at
  http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/AN2007_06_DebianEtchOnAMCC440EPx
- "Installing Ubuntu 6.10 on AMCC PPC 440EPx 'Sequoia' Board" at
  http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/AN2007_01_InstallUbuntuOnSequoia

> An aside
> --------
> The procedure uses a tftp directory of '/tftpboot/192.168.1.20'. I 
> found that the 'mount -o nolock -t nfs <ipaddr>:/tftpboot/192.168.1.20 
> /target' command failed - I renamed the '192.168.1.20' subdirectory to 
> 'debian' and all was fine. Maybe mount was confused? This might be the 
> fault referred to in email thread '[ELDK] Debian Lenny Install on AMCC 
> 405EX (Kilauea)'.

Hm... "192.168.1.20" or "debian" are just directory names here. 


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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