Novena/Debian Wheezy Bootstrap

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Debian Wheezy Debootstrap

A VERY ROUGH SET OF INSTRUCTIONS, RUN WITH CARE

This set of instructions assumes you have a functioning Novena board with Debian Wheezy. These instructions are primarily for people who want to re-create the firmware/base image.

Prerequisites

  • An existing Novena board running Debian Wheezy .
  • Root access on your board, ideally have sudo access with no password.
  • A 4gb microsd card.
  • A reasonably fast network connection.
  • Approximately 10gigs of free diskspace (more is probably better so you can cache things during testing/dev) - ideally get a SSD plugged into the board.

Summary

  • generate u-boot boot loader
  • generate uImage and uImage.dtb file
  • generate debian packages for the kernel
  • generate a blockdevice or use a real sdcard
    • first partition is a fat32 partition for the kernel and boot.scr
    • second partition is for the operating system
  • debootstrap the second partition