Hi Allen: <quote> well i am lookin at porting linux on arm 9..i wanted help in how i can go abt doin it...well i dont have network supprot on it cos i removed the support...well i wanted to knw how i can do it serially....well in case u can put me across to some one it wud be great </quote> I would encourage you to read: [1] Karim Yaghmour. (April 2003). Building Embedded Linux Systems. O'Reilly. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/belinuxsys/ Transferring images across ethernet is faster than using a serial connection. You might need to use the serial connection for debugging. Regards, ------------------------------------- K Shakthi Hexaware Technologies Limited Specsoft, Embedded Systems Practice 51/3 G N Chetty Road T Nagar Chennai 600 017 India Tel: (91) (44) 5200 1600. Extn: 6225 http://www.geocities.com/shakthimaan ------------------------------------- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/