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Hello Lester,

Take a look around some of the guides at linuxdevices.com and ucdot.org

Basically, a embedded image is built on a host PC, which includes the linux kernel and usually some kind of filesystem, and then it's transferred to the device across network or serial, or programmed directly into the unit's flash (rom). Some types of flash you can think of similarly to hard drives - with the appropriate filesystem drivers etc, you can just read/write to a mounted parition as usual.

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If your device is supported by some linux distro, you can read it's docs for details (since it is always hardware specific). If you want to start from ground zero, you need to read the docs of the device firmware/bootloader and build a linux kernel image in the binary format supported by this firmare/bootloader. Then load and execute this kernel acording to the firmware documentation... Creating of the flash partitions can be done afterwards and then deployment is just a matter of uloading files to your flash partitions... Get "Building Embedde Linux Systems" by Karim Yaghmour - the book is a pretty good reading for beginers...

Lester Burnham wrote:

Best regards,

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Thanks, I just found the book in the library and skimmed it a little... By the way, I am creating the device myself so I have no restrictions...

Lester

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- How am I supposed to post my replies in a newsgroup?:

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"newbie" as a subject in newsgroups (that is read by thousends of people around the world, isn't realy helpfull)