Building the DiskOnChip Files

This procedure uses the Embedded Linux Workshop presented in Chapter 7. We’ll use the workshop to re-create our favorite example, the Minicom appliance (also used in Chapter 8).

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Acquire root privileges for your machine, if you don’t already have them. Because the Embedded Linux Workshop mounts and unmounts filesystems, there’s really no way to run it except as root.
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Download the Embedded Linux Workshop. It’s available from http://elw.sourceforge.net or ftp://elw.sourceforge.net/pub/elw/. There are a lot of files to download if you want the full source to the ELW. However, for now you only need the workshop itself. It will be named elw-X.Y.Z.tgz, where X.Y.Z is the current version number. If you just want ...

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