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This is the complete, accurate guide to getting a TS-7260 to boot debian etch with a nice large root

Get a 512mb image from technologic, such as 512mbsd-7400-linux26-etch-oabi.dd. ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7400-linux/binaries/ts-images/ has these images.

dd it to disk:
 dd if=512mbsd-7400-linux26-etch-oabi.dd of=/dev/mmcblk0

Eject the disk, and re-insert it. If your computer automounts it, umount it. This is to make sure the partition table we're looking at is sane.

With devio, mtd-utils, and jfsutils installed (these may be different for non-ubuntu systems), fire up gparted and resize the partition, click-and-drag style. Uncheck "round to cylinders". If it fails the first time, fsck it, it'll probably be clean, and just try to resize again, it'll work. We use gparted for this because it's the cleanest, easiest way to handle the nonstandard geometry while still making sure that the filesystem is not destroyed.

Boot it on the arm board

Enter <code>ln -sf /linuxrc-sdroot /linuxrc; save</code> to make the arm board boot into the full environment on the sdcard.

<code>reboot</code> the arm board.

log in as root

set a password

set up /etc/network/interfaces:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
 
 auto eth0
 iface eth0 inet static
 	address 132.177.88.xxx
 	netmask 255.255.252.0
 	gateway 132.177.88.1
 

set up /etc/resolv.conf:
 nameserver 132.177.88.52

run <code>/etc/init.d/networking restart</code>

run <code>/etc/init.d/ssh restart</code>

disable weird services from starting and shut them off, like apache and x:
 update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
 update-rc.d -f startx remove
 update-rc.d -f x11-common remove


Their lenny image seems to have serious issues with devpts. As a workaround, you can "mount -v -t devpts none /dev/pts" to be able to SSH and other fun stuff.