Yay! Exams and Assignments are over. No more uni things for a few weeks.

After some quality time yesterday and today, I finally have EFIKA booting Crux Linux.

I had no end of hassle with the flash drive boot process for Debian and others. Simply put, I have my old flash drive and my partners new one and no matter what, the drives would be detected by the EFIKAs firmware but the files would NOT ever be seen on the drives. I tried formating and repartitioning, fat16 and fat32 and the firmware would simply never show or boot as if a file was on those drives.

Anyhow, I cobbled togeather an old pc and a Kubuntu Fiesty bootcd and untarred the cruxppc flash drive image onto the root partition of my 2.5" hard drive.

I placed the hard drive into the EFIKA (fits like a glove) and whoohoo linux booted.

It complained about the file system on the first boot -- due to the clocks / time stamps on each machine I think -- and on the reboot it just works.

I commend the Crux PPC team on their excellent product.

Nice.
:-)