Install Debian from a Debian box?

[franklin97355]

Your instructions for installing Debian uses a virtual Ubuntu box and virtual Debian inage. are there instructions on how to do this from a native Debian computer? Thanks.

[vitaliy]

Please read the latest page of
http://www.bipom.com/documents/boards/gadgetpc/GadgetPC%20Debian%20Installation%20Guide.pdf
"6. Alternative releases for advanced Linux users".
All you need is to download the prepared images and copy a disk hard  drive

Also, you can install Debian on QEMU and then  copy to a real disk hard drive ( USB Flash or microSD).
This link provides a detailed instruction
http://dev.emcelettronica.com/installing-debian-arm-qemu

[franklin97355]

That will teach me to "Read The Entire Manual " 
Thanks for your patience and support.

[franklin97355]

OK, after I get the files on the flash drive and plug it in it flashes for a few seconds, the USB serial port makes a connection but I can not communicate on either the usb serial or the TTL serial ports. What do I have to do next?

[vitaliy]

Please show a log  your board sends to a console
http://www.bipom.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1258826725

Note, the board sends  bootstrap/u-boot debug messages
even without USB flash

[franklin97355]

I am getting nothing on the console port but with the original GadgetPC flash I get a ligin prompt on the USB connection. What baud rate should I be using? I\'ve tried 9600, 57600 and 115200.

[vitaliy]

115200

[franklin97355]

Here is the tail of the info I got...
some lines were reduced to lowercase because the forum software says I\'m using all caps

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registered new interface driver usb-storage
usb mass storage support registered.
udc: at91_udc version 3 may 2006
g_serial gadget: gadget serial v2.4
g_serial gadget: g_serial ready
mice: ps/2 mouse device common for all mice
rtc-at91sam9 at91_rtt.0: rtc core: registered at91_rtt as rtc0
irq 1/rtc0: irqf_disabled is not guaranteed on shared irqs
rtc-at91sam9 at91_rtt.0: rtc0: set time!
i2c-gpio i2c-gpio: using pins 55 (sda) and 56 (scl)
linux video capture interface: v2.00
at91sam9 watchdog: sorry, watchdog is disabled
at91_wdt: probe of at91_wdt failed with error -5
sdhci: secure digital host controller interface driver
sdhci: copyright(c) pierre ossman
advanced linux sound architecture driver version 1.0.20.
usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-caiaq
alsa device list:
  no soundcards found.
tcp cubic registered
net: registered protocol family 17
vfp support v0.3: not present
rtc-at91sam9 at91_rtt.0: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock
ramdisk: couldn\'t find valid ram disk image starting at 0.
list of all partitions:
no filesystem could mount root, tried:  ext3 ext2 cramfs vfat romfs
kernel panic - not syncing: vfs: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
[<c002a4ec>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xdc) from [<c02509f4>] (panic+0x40/0x110)
[<c02509f4>] (panic+0x40/0x110) from [<c0008fb8>] (mount_block_root+0x25c/0x2ac)
[<c0008fb8>] (mount_block_root+0x25c/0x2ac) from [<c00091d0>] (prepare_namespace+0x164/0x1bc)
[<c00091d0>] (prepare_namespace+0x164/0x1bc) from [<c000859c>] (kernel_init+0xb8/0xe4)
[<c000859c>] (kernel_init+0xb8/0xe4) from [<c003ce80>] (do_exit+0x0/0x5ac)
[<c003ce80>] (do_exit+0x0/0x5ac) from [<00000001>] (0x1)
g_serial gadget: full speed config #2: cdc acm config

[vitaliy]

Did you configure GadgetPC loaders to run Debian ?
Please read
http://www.bipom.com/documents/boards/gadgetpc/Commands%20to%20set%20up%20UBOOT%20environment%20to%20boot%20GadgetPC.pdf

1) To run Debian on GadgetPC, type the following at the U-BOOT prompt:
setenv bootcmd \'usb start; fatload usb 0:1 0x21000000 uImage; bootm 0x21000000\'
setenv bootargs \'mem=32M console=ttyS1,115200 root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait\'
saveenv
( You do not need any mmfs.gz or gpcfs.gz at all )
2) To run ARM9 Linux on GadgetPC, type the following at the U-BOOT prompt:
setenv bootcmd \'usb start; fatload usb 0:1 0x21000000 uimage; fatload usb 0:1 0x20410000 gpcfs.gz; bootm 0x21000000\'
setenv bootargs \'mem=32M console=ttyS1,115200 root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd=0x20410000,0x800000 ramdisk_size=8200\'
saveenv

[franklin97355]

Thank you, I now have a login prompt but the user \'root\' with the password \'user\' does not work. Also after the line loading uImage I get garbage until the login prompt any ideas? Also how do I change the settings for the IP being used as it is not in my network range.
Thanks again.

[jdac]

1) On my Arm-Debian the default system has two users
login "user", with password "user" , and
login "root", with password "root"
I installed following the instructions from section 6 of Debian Installation guide.

2)Garbage through the serial port can be because of speed mismatch between GadgetPC\'s serial port and your terminal emulator\'s serial port settings. If you followed the "long" Debian installation (not section 6), there\'s a part where some lines must be changed in /etc/inittab to set the correct terminal and it\'s parameters for, make sure you edit that file correctly. If that isn\'t the problem i really wouldn\'t know.

3) The configuration parameters for the wireless usb card are in /etc/network/interfaces. I think configuration of this is fairly standard for Debian systems and some googling for topics such as "debian interfaces configuration" or "debian network configuration" or "debian WUA1340 configuration" should help you. Sorry to not be of much help in this, I was about to go do those searches myself!
(also there\'s a post somewhere in this forum about debian+gadgetPc+wireless+WPA, which maybe can also be of help)

[franklin97355]

Thank you Juan, I\'m working through some of these links and trying the ideas but have not yet hit on the "Magic Combo" I once got the router to see the GadgetPC\'s mac address but no communications yet. I\'ll keep working on this and let everyone know what I find.

[franklin97355]

Still not working. I downloaded the latest copies of the files and checked the U-Boot which is now including the lines mentioned. I went into /etc/network/interfaces and changed the password and ssid and changed wlan0 to wlan1 since the system does not know wlan0. If I run iwconfig after making the changes and restarting the network it does not know the essid and I have to add that manually. The wireless card starts and my router sees the mac address but I cannot communicate and if I ping I get destination unreachable. I have set it to use a static IP since if I try dhcp it will time out after a session of dhcpdiscovers. I\'m open to suggestions.

[vitaliy]

show logs of ifconfig, iwconfig

[franklin97355]

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debian-armel:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan1     ieee 802.11bg  essid:""
          mode:managed  frequency:2.412 ghz  access point: not-associated
          tx-power=18 dbm
          retry min limit:7   rts thr:off   fragment thr:off
          encryption key:off
          power management:off
          link quality:0  signal level:0  noise level:0
          rx invalid nwid:0  rx invalid crypt:0  rx invalid frag:0
          tx excessive retries:0  invalid misc:0   missed beacon:0

debian-armel:~# ifconfig
lo        link encap:local loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  mask:255.0.0.0
          up loopback running  mtu:16436  metric:1
          rx packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          tx packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          rx bytes:4632 (4.5 kib)  tx bytes:4632 (4.5 kib)

wlan1     link encap:ethernet  hwaddr 00:24:01:9e:99:9c
          inet addr:192.168.1.212  bcast:192.168.1.255  mask:255.255.255.0
          up broadcast multicast  mtu:1500  metric:1
          rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          rx bytes:0 (0.0 b)  tx bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  link encap:unspec  hwaddr 00-24-01-9e-99-9c-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          up running  mtu:0  metric:1
          rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          rx bytes:0 (0.0 b)  tx bytes:0 (0.0 b)