[Angstrom-distro-users] angstrom on a 3200?

[Justin Patrin]

On 1/2/07, Pogodin Pavel <compovod at gmail.com> wrote:
> +++ Barry Woods [Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:46:28PM -0900]:
> >   Do the images actually work??
>
> Yes, they work on my C3200 :)
>
> >   .а DownloadаAngstrom-gpe-image-test-20061228-spitz.rootfs.tar.bz2, bunzip
> >   it, then bzip the tar file.а Then rename to initrd.bin .
>
> This file is not an initrd image. This is tarred contents of rootfs.
> Probably, the right way to install will be downloading filesystem image
> and renaming it to hdImage.img, but i has not tried it.
> I've just partitioned my hd by hand and untarred rootfs to it :)
>

Indeed, a tar.bz2 is not an HD image. You need a .img file for that.
Remember that the images for the C3x00 are meant to be booted from the
microdrive, not flash. What you need to to is rename it to
hdimage1.tar.bz2 (I think) and put that on the card. It should format
and unzip to hda1.

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Justin Patrin