[Gllug] Distro for an EPC-301

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:28:59AM +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have one of these beasties...
> 
> http://www.bvm-store.com/ProductDetail.asp?fdProductId=469
> 
> It came to us with a Compact Flash installation of PuppyLinux but I was
> hoping to be able to install something with a package repository behind
> it, ideally Debian.
> 
> The main issue is the lack of FPU support on the processor which means
> that Ubuntu, Debian and DamnSmallLinux won't install.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions on which distro to run on it, or should I
> stick with making PuppyLinux a bit more usable?

IIRC the kernel has the ability to provide emulation for a FPU, a compile option.
If you roll your own kernel and then install.

Rip apart a debian netinstall CD, replace the kernel on the CD (use the same
version, config params except adding the FPU one), make a new ISO:

mkisofs -o MyNetInstImage.iso \
      -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
      -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
      -J -R \
      MyNetInstImage

burn that to CD ... and hope, then let us know.

(The above mkisofs command run on a Redhat system will build a debian ISO)

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