[ELDK] Filesystem on sata

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Zaahir Khan,

In message <f970d83a0911032329q6ebf7d56o4b208409c2682f73 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I want to create a filesystem on sata.

I guess you mean on a harddisk drive attached to a S-ATA controller?

> http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/AN2007_06_DebianEtchOnAMCC440EPx
> 
> but unable to find ppc-etch-image.tgz

Indeed - it seems as if the pages at http://219.238.170.12/~john.zu/
have disappeared since.

> And also tried debootstrap giving following error
> 
>                 I: Retrieving Release
>                 E: Failed getting release file
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release

Well, the current stable release of Debian Linux is called "lenny" -
you probably want to use that instead.

[And it would be nice if you documented your way, and provided
another, updated Application Note, too.]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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