Re: [E3-hacking] e3-hacking starter guide

Nathan Friend wrote:

Hi all, I've been lurking on this list for a while now. Are there any e3 hacking starter guides? I've got some e3's and would like to see what they can do.

You probably want to go here:

http://the.earth.li/pub/e3/

...and download E3_release_v2.tar.gz. This is a complete kit that (once you make the right cable) will put a stripped-down OpenEmbedded based Linux distro on your E3. You end up with a complete if basic distro running from flash with about 27MB free.

That's pretty basic, but from there it's possible to bootstrap yourself into Debian if you're sufficiently masochistic. The E3's only got USB1 which means that external storage is rather slow but it's surprisingly useable.