Novena/Debian Wheezy Bootstrap

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. It relies on various bits and pieces of information on this wiki.

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.
• Assumes 'you as a user' has tried building a linux kernel, u-boot etc...
  • i.e. we assume you have generated the kernel debian packages, uImage, uImage.dtb, the relevant boot loader and boot scripts.

Summary

• generate u-boot boot loader and boot script
  • See http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena/DebianBuildProcess#Compile_the_u-boot_boot_script
  • See http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena/DebianBuildProcess#Build_u-boot
• generate uImage and uImage.dtb file
  • See http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena/DebianBuildProcess#Build_Kernel
• generate debian packages for the kernel
  • See https://github.com/xobs/novena-linux/blob/3.15-rc1-novena/debian-build.sh
• generate a blockdevice or use a real sdcard
  • qemu-nbd was used in this example
  • first partition is a fat32 partition for the kernel and boot.scr
  • second partition is for the operating system
• debootstrap the second partition (via apt-cacher-ng to reduce network traffic)

Steps

Install at least these things...

sudo apt-get install -y qemu-utils apt-cacher-ng build-essential less rsync lzop u-boot-tools git debhelper bc device-tree-compiler parted