IA32 embedded developing board installation and configuration

IA32 embedded developing board installation and configuration
by daniel on Mar. 31, 2008

1- hardware
    IA32 main board with 900MHZ CPU, SATA hard disk, 512M RAM.

2- Software
    Ubuntu 7.04 (kernel 2.6.20)

3- Installation
    use two disks, the 1st disk (/dev/sda)  is Ubutu, the 2nd disk (/dev/sdb)  shall be empty.
    sudo fdisk -l
    delete all patition in /dev/sdb
    dd if=mbr_bin of=/dev/sdb count=512
    patition the disk into 2 patitions, the 1st one is boot , the 2nd one is root
    dd if=redboot_image of=/dev/sdb1 conv=sync
   mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb2
   cp busybox vmlinuz to root
4- Configuration
    ifconfig eth0 up
    route add -host default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    udhcp