Well, finally I had some free time. Where does it all go?

Anyway, I set up the EFIKA with a spare atx power supply and a null modem cable I whipped up on the weekend.

Minicom messed me about a little bit, the config file options were less than intuitive. But after a fair bit of trial and error and reading in the forums, I picked up my error and can now see the EFIKA boot process.

I do like this firmware, neat tidy and very fast. :-)

So I started trying to get the Debian install to do its thing off my usb flash drive.

This doesn't work. It's odd because when I boot with my flash drive in the machine, devalias clearly lists the drive and the hd designation.

However, the files on the flash drive do not list. It just comes up as empty. Strange! Shutdown the EFIKA and check the flash drive on my Linux box, all is good; files are there.

Okay, what next.
This time around, I am going to put a little partition on my 2.5" hard drive and see if I can get on with the install.

Well, thats the goal. Will see how that goes in the next day or two.

D.