Chumby has made an OpenEmbedded overlay available for building firmware for their products. Unfortunately the distributed source package has several issues which this package corrects, including:

• simplifying the installation process
• correcting the checksum for linux kernel source file
• correcting the source directory for linux kernel source file

• Download the ISO file for the netinst from http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/.
• Select only the minimum required packages, plus the SSH server.
• Follow the installer prompts to complete the installation and reboot.
• Set the network to "bridged" mode so you can ssh into the virtual box over your network.

Once you have a Debian console, perform the following:

1. Install git-core, to download this repository.

   sudo apt-get install git-core

2. Disable dash, as OpenEmbedded prefers Bash.

   sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

3. Download the bootstrap tools

   cd ~
   git clone [email protected]:clearwater/chumby-oe.git

4. Use the bootstrap tools to install required packages. This triggers the installation of over 200 packages, it will take a while.

   cd ~/chumby-oe
   make bootstrap

5. Create the firmware

   cd ~/chumby-oe
   make

1. Chumby Hacker Boards
2. Buy Chumby Hacker Boards at Adafruit
3. OpenEmbedded Wiki
4. Bitbake Manual
5. Chumby Hackers Board Forum
6. Chumby Building OpenEmbedded
7. Chumby Quickstarting OE