Hey Guys,

Really getting into Linux now, even using it at work to develop on!

As a result I've put debian on an Arm based development kit that I have. It's essentially a PDA running an arm 2.6 kernel and a installation of debian on 128MB nand flash.

I really want to add more packages to the installation but I have no room on the nand. I was therefore wondering if it would be possible to mount an external USB disk or Compact flash card and run linux from there...

Any help or tips with this would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Adam

There are bunches and bunches of ways to do it. Too many to list. Here's a start though....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...distro&spell=1

Best of luck....

David

P.S. Linuxdevices.com is a fantastic site. Here is a page of theirs just on embedded distro's.
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2760742655.html

I've had a look through those. I have Debian up and running on the system I'm just trying to change the kernel arguments for the root fs to the usb stick. Everytime I set the "root=/dev/sda1" it attempt an automount using vfat (which isn't supported) even though the disk type is ext2... any thoughts? I want to say something like root=/dev/sda1 -t ext2....

Thank you,

Adam

What is your /etc/fstab look like ?

David