[fpc-devel] "embedded" again

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/16/2013 05:31 PM, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>
> You can install debian on it, then you'll have everything you need 
> (no, I don't own one, I just googled it).
You are right, but as I use it mainly for it's intended purpose (NAS) 
and here the QNAP-tuned Linux distribution offers really nice feature - 
while not preventing installing additional community software via ipkg 
or from the sources, I'd like to stay with the original distribution and 
install fpc via cross-compiling. Maybe I can somehow extract the binary 
from the fpc apt-get-Debian-ARM package and just copy it to the device. 
Any idea how this (with a PC finding, downloading  and unpacking the 
files from a Debian package without using apt) might be done ? I also 
might try to upgrade the (seemingly outdated and not normally 
upgradeable) Debian on my old Slug to do the task. (Do you know how to 
do this ?)
> If you don't want to replace the stock firmware maybe you could 
> install a debian chroot and, again, have everything at your disposal.
>
Seems like a nice idea. Up to know am not up to date with what chroot 
exactly does and how it might be possible to chroot and then install 
Debian in the "jail".

Thanks a lot for these hints,
-Michael