installation without installer

[Oliver Grawert]

Am Dienstag, den 23.03.2010, 20:16 +0100 schrieb Sleep_Walker:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm owner of Sharp PC-Z1 Netwalker with Ubuntu 9.04 preload. Netwalker unfortunatelly doesn't have support in vanilla, so I have to use 2.6.28 sources provided by Sharp.
> 
> I'd like to upgrade to 9.10 (and later probably 10.04). Unfortunatelly I can't boot anything else but internal flash or SD card. Furthermore I have no SquashFS 4.0 support in kernel. So I'd like to perform installation steps without booting Ubuntu usual way.
> 
> I extracted squashfs filesystem from provided image and unpacked all to card, added old kernel and booted. It worked but the system seems to be unconfigured in many ways.
> 
> I don't know Ubuntu much so I'd like to ask how to perform installation without running installer. I'd like to do it as clean way as possible and share the result with other Netwalker users.
> 
here are the instructions to roll a rootfs for ARM devices like the
netwalker, i have no idea how well it will behave with a 2.6.28 kernel
in newer releases though since userspace in ubuntu usually uses features
of the kernel shipped with the release (9.10 = 2.6.31, 10.04 = 2.6.32).

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch

if you extract the tarball this script builds to a tmpdir and use
mksquashfs (from the squashfs-tools package) you should end up with a
proper squashfs to use.

ciao
	oli
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