* Debian Installer for the ADS Debian Distribution *

This directory can be used to install ADS Debian (or stock Debian) from
scratch on an ADS board. This is only recommended if you are already
familiar with installing Debian.

The system to be installed should have a USB hard drive, which Debian will
be installed to, and a compact flash, which will be used for booting the
installer.

1) Copy the appropriate boot .txt files for your system onto the compact
   flash.

   To install Debian without ADS additions, in a fully interactive mode,
   edit the cmdline.txt file or install_config.txt file and remove
   everything from "preseed/url" on to the end of the line.

   Note that we recommend using the ADS additions, as this will
   semi-automatically install a system much like the Debian system we
   provide in a tarball, with working X, etc.

2) Copy the ramdisk.gz from this directory to the compact flash.
   Alternatively, you can use an initrd from any version of the Debian
   installer built after September 7th, 2005. For details, see
   http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

3) Download a proper kernel for your ADS board and place it on the compact
   flash as a file named "zImage".

4) Boot the system from compact flash and proceed with the first stage of
   installation.

5) After installation is complete, remove the compact flash and replace the
   boot .txt files placed on it in step 1 above with the boot .txt files
   needed to boot Debian from a USB hard drive. These files can be found in
   the debian-full-root accompnying this directory.

6) Boot Debian and complete the second stage of the installation process.