Freedom-Maker - Bdale's building tools for the FreedomBox project Install required build packages: apt-get install multistrap qemu-user-static To build for a DreamPlug, use sudo ./mk_dreamplug_rootfs This will yield a file tree under build/dreamplug, representing the contents of a root file system. Get that onto a USB stick with something like sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/freedom sudo rsync -atvz --progress build/dreamplug/ /media/freedom/ sudo umount /media/freedom Move the USB stick to the DreamPlug, and arrange to boot the existing kernel from internal microSD pointing to our new root filesystem by interrupting the boot to talk to U-Boot: setenv x_bootargs_root root=/dev/sdc1 rootdelay=10 saveenv reset The system should boot to a login prompt. - - - - - If you want to set things up to boot from the internal microSD card, once you're logged into the system booted from root on USB stick you can use: sh /boot/copy2dream.sh - - - - - Be aware that this is an imcomplete solution for now .. you will want to at least do things like create unique ssh host keys for your device!