• BuildCompactFlash

This procedure must be done as root I think

mkdir readonly cd readonly tar xzf ../readonly.tgz mkdir var tar xzf etc/var.tgz

edit var/local/etc/resolv.conf

• set up as appropriate for network config

tar czf etc/var.tgz var

rm -rf var rm vmlinuz

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc count=100 cfdisk /dev/hdc

• conpressed uncompressed hdc1 5MB hdc1 125m hdc2 120mB hdc2 - hdc3 -

edit boot/grub/menu.lst

• change line: "terminal --timeout=10 serial console" to: "terminal --timeout=0 serial" change all instances(3) of: "console=tty0" to: "ramdisk_size=16384" delete lines "savedefault"

edit etc/init.d/mountall.sh

• before the line "mount -avt nonfs,nosmbfs,noncpfs,noproc" add the line "mkfs.ext2 /dev/ram0"

edit etc/fstab

• change "/dev/hda3" to "/dev/ram0" change last char on /dev/ram0 line from "2" to "0" delete lines for floppy, cdrom and swap (/dev/hda4) if compressed
  • change "/dev/hda4" to "/dev/hda3"
  if !compressed
  • change "/dev/hda4" to "/dev/hda2"

edit etc/modules

• change "ne" to "natsemi" delete line "hostap_plx"

edit etc/default/pcmcia

• change "PCIC=i82365"" to "PCIC=yenta_socket"

edit etc/network/interfaces

• configure network as appropriate

# remove ssh keys rm etc/ssh/*key*

edit etc/shadow

• change root to no password
  • second field empty
  change ptp to no login
  • second field "*"

mkdir dev proc var ln -s /var/tmp tmp

mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc1 if compressed

• mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc2 mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/tmp mkdir /mnt/tmp/boot mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/tmp/boot

if !compressed

• mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/tmp

tar cf - * | tar -C /mnt/tmp -xf - umount /mnt/tmp/boot /mnt/tmp

if compressed

• mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdc3

if ! compressed

• mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdc2

#chroot . sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.hdc run grub and enter the following commands

• device (hd0) /dev/hdc root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit

on first boot remountrw set password for root and ptp dpkg-reconfigure ssh

• use all defaults

reconfigure network

remountro