A Virtual Appliance with Debian Squeeze and OpenWRT-XBurst Development Tools installed - for "out of the box" compilation for the Nanonote

jon at rejon.org jon at rejon.org
Wed Aug 31 05:46:34 EDT 2011


This is fabulous and pushes dev. Forward

jon at fabricatorz.com
http://fabricatorz.com
On Aug 21, 2011 6:21 AM, "Ernest Kugel" <erik.kugel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm writing about a Virtual Appliance with Debian Squeeze and
> OpenWRT-XBurst Development Tools installed, which would allow
> immediately compiling OpenWRT packages for the Nanonote without going
> through the painful process of setting up the development environment
> yourself.
>
> As a non-developer, I found a working development environment to be the
> single most confusing part of porting to the Nanonote, even more
> confusing than OpenWRT's Makefiles. Granted, this could be my personal
> lack of talent or skill, but it left me thinking removing this
> "steppingstone" for some of the less experienced users might open more
> doors, faster, for beginning Nanonote enthusiasts. The instructions at
> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Building_OpenWRT_on_Debian_6 are great,
> but might slightly intimidate less experienced Linux users. They are
> also slightly daunting to follow if the need arises frequently (if
> reinstalling OS, royally screwed something up, or other scenarios I'm
> sure you ran into).
>
> The easiest way to get around this I could come up with was creating a
> Virtual Appliance which contains the basics for compiling for the
> Nanonote, using the wiki instructions for Debian Squeeze. Such an
> appliance can be run in VirtualBox (free and open source) or VMWare
> Player (free as in beer), even on Windows hosts. The result is a single
> 2.4 GB file with a ready toolchain which is ready to "accept" package
> Makefiles and compile them. Debian was installed, the toolchain was
> compiled, the locales and paths were set. I gave it a quick test
> compiling Pem (and a load of Perl dependencies) and it seemed to work.
>
> The Virtual Appliance is unimaginatively called "Debian Squeeze with
> OpenWRT-XBurst Development Tools" and comes as a single .OVA file. See
> details below.
>
> Virtual Appliance Download Page on 1fichier.com:
> http://0tqstz.1fichier.com/en/index.html
> .OVA file MD5 sum: f9ebe1b0cfe63ae1aa584ddff7b222ed
> user: build
> password: gongshow
> root password: gongshow
>
> Instructions:
> 1. Install VirtualBox.
> 2. Download Virtual Appliance .OVA file.
> 3. In VirtualBox click on "Machine" > "Import" and select the .OVA file.
>
> I've added a brief section under the Building on ... Debian Squeeze wiki
> page.
>
> Hope someone finds this helpful.
>
> --
> Ernest Kugel
>
>
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