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Many instructions here are mirrored from Toby Schneider's instructions at http://gobysoft.org/wiki/InstallOnGumstixOvero.  

Root filesystem preparation

Follow these steps to create a debian wheezy root filesystem.  In this section we will use # host to indicate commands run on the host machine, and # chroot for commands commands run inside the chroot filesystem.  

  1. Install dependencies:

    # host
    sudo apt-get install multistrap qemu-user-static
  2. Pick a working folder, in this case ~/duovero
     
  3. Create a directory to hold the root filesystem:

    # host
    cd ~/duovero
    mkdir rootfs
  4. Create a configuration file debian.conf in ~/duovero and paste in the following.  Additional packages can be included here or installed later using apt-get.  

    [General]
    arch=armel
    directory=~/duovero/rootfs
    retainsources=~/duovero/sources
    cleanup=true
    noauth=true
    unpack=true
    bootstrap=Wheezy Net Utils
    aptsources=Wheezy
    
    [Wheezy]
    packages=apt locales udev adduser sudo nano build-essential less
    source=http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian
    suite=wheezy
    
    [Net]
    packages=netbase ifupdown iproute net-tools iputils-ping ntp
    source=http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian
    
    [Utils]
    packages=wget
    source=http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian
  5. Run multistrap to create the root filesystem.  

    # host
    multistrap -a armel -d ~/duovero/rootfs -f debian.conf
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