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	qole	2008-10-25 , 06:01
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Getting A Big Debian Image File:

It would probably be just as easy to start from scratch; if you don't want to partition your SD card (still the best way to get lots of space), you can make your own (empty) image file as described way back here:
(you may need to be root to do this, you will definitely have to apt-get install e2fsprogs)

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=debian.img.ext2 count=3984589
mkfs.ext2 debian.img.ext2 -m 1 -L debian

What's that 3984589? That should give us 1.9 gigabytes. Seems that you calculate size like this: <bytes> / 512 = <dd-count>

Then, you have to mount the new image file and untar the Easy Debian files into it, as described in this post:

As root, mount it like so (so you get the turbo speed):

Code:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/dm-mod.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/dm-loop.ko
dmlosetup loop0 /media/mmc1/debian.img.ext2
mount -t ext2 /dev/dm-0 /debian -o noatime

You can then (still as root) untar the complete Easy Debian filesystem or the basic Debian rootfs into the /debian directory.

Code:

cd /debian
tar -xjvf /path/to/debian-final.tar.bz2 .

Make sure you run closechroot before using "sudo debian," "debbie," or the "Debian chroot" menu icon. Otherwise you might end up with an incomplete chroot.

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