Posted by Ed on 07/12/2005 @ 02:12 AM
STEP 1:
First, much of my process was provided by this site
howto install debian on WRAP
Second, let me say that what you'll be creating with the instructions below is something like a 50-55MB ext2 CF filesystem that uses about 33MB of ram for write access and at most 80MB of ram. WRAP comes with 128 in it's latest incarnation. Also, wifi is not covered here, I haven't bought any wifi cards for WRAP yet.
There are some things missing from the above link's description. I followed his process for using debootstrap and chroot, though i used a local mirror for debian.
However, you can't run base-config without having a valid /dev fs. debootstrap doesn't create pts, pty or tty or such devices, so you must first create those. You can get away with just creating the tty and pty ones, pts is usually handled by a virtual fs and isn't necessarily needed for base-config. You'll probably also want to create the hda device.
Ok, now run base-config and set that all up. You'll probably notice how your hostname is screwed up in any new terminals or programs you open, dont worry, it's not permanantly messed up.
you'll then probably want to run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. install any other program you can think of wanting. I grabbed mc and iptraf. Pretty heavy duty for something like WRAP, but i had plenty of space for them on a 128MB cf card.
After you download and configure any networking type programs you want and firewall stuff, you'll want to setup the kernel and start editing config files and such. That stuff will be covered in STEP 2 and 3.
Right now you should have addeda at least one user, set their password and your root password. Got your programs installed and ran apt-get clean.