Phase 1 - debootstrap a USB stick from your PC

Start by unmounting you USB stick and remounting it manually to avoid any automatic nodev or noexec mount options:

rcw@initiative:/$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
rcw@initiative:/$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Use debootstrap to build the initial filesystem:

rcw@initiative:/mnt$ sudo debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign unstable . http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
I: Retrieving Release 
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I: Found additional required dependencies: insserv libbz2-1.0 libcap2 libdb5.1 libsemanage-common libsemanage1 libslang2 libustr-1.0-1 
I: Found additional base dependencies: init-system-helpers libclass-isa-perl libee0 libept1.4.12 libestr0 libgcrypt11 libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 libidn11 libjson-c2 liblognorm0 libmnl0 libnetfilter-acct1 libnfnetlink0 libp11-kit0 libsqlite3-0 libswitch-perl libtasn1-3 libxapian22 perl perl-modules 
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rcw@initiative:/mnt$ 

umount the USB stick. It could take a while for your system to dump all of the cached writes we just did to the USB stick to allow it to unmount. Give it time:

rcw@initiative:/mnt$ cd 
rcw@initiative:~$ sudo umount /mnt
rcw@initiative:~$ 

Phase 2 - Finish debootstrap on the E4200v2

Plug the USB stick into your E4200v2, then mount it:

~ # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

chroot to wherever you mounted the USB stick:

~ # chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Run dbootstrap’s second stage:

I have no name!@Cisco39597:/# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/lib/arm-linux-gnueab 
I have no name!@Cisco39597:/# /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage --verbose
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I have no name!@Cisco39597:/# exit
exit
~ # chroot /mnt /bin/bash
root@Cisco39597:/#

The E4200v2 only has 128M of RAM. We’re going to want a swap file:

root@Cisco39597:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=262144   
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 44.1591 s, 6.1 MB/s
root@Cisco39597:/# mkswap /swapfile 
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 262140 KiB
no label, UUID=908e8f21-6aab-44c5-b24f-9eddfecf7add
root@Cisco39597:/# echo "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
root@Cisco39597:/# swapon -a
root@Cisco39597:/# 

Add /proc and /sys to your /etc/fstab:

root@Cisco39597:/# cat >> /etc/fstab <<"EOF" 
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
EOF
root@Cisco39597:/#

Make yourself a sources.list:

root@Cisco39597:/# echo "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list

Update and upgrade:

root@Cisco39597:/# aptitude update
Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable InRelease [205 kB]
Get: 2 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main armel Packages [6229 kB]
Get: 3 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Translation-en [4248 kB]
Fetched 10.7 MB in 42s (249 kB/s)                                               

Current status: 37794 new [+37794].
root@Cisco39597:/# aptitude upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

root@Cisco39597:/#

Edit inittab to add a serial getty

T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200

Set a root password

root@Cisco00112:/# passwd
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
root@Cisco00112:/#

Set the hostname:

root@Cisco00112:/# echo "candyhouse" > /etc/hostname

Setup eth0 (the switch) to request an address from DHCP:

root@candyhouse:/# cat >> /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0 <<"EOF"                        
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
EOF  

References