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4.0 Yet ANOTHER way of doing the same thing.

One other potential configuration that I've experimented with was to do away with the Intimate portion of the install. In Familiar, I mounted the CF card on /dev/hda and ftp'd down Debian's base2_2.tar.gz (ARM distribution) on it and unzipped that file. This in effect, put another "filesystem" on the CF card, complete with a shell, and it's own set of libs and binaries. Then when I want a large program such as gcc, or perl, I chroot to the CF card "chroot /mnt/hda" and then do an apt-get gcc directly from Debian. Once done, I de-chroot back to Familiar and edit my PATH to include the binaries located on the CF card (PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/mnt/hda/usr/bin:/mnt/hda/usr/sbin: etc...).

There is a problem with this configuration though. There seems to be a bug with QPE that loads the CF card's files into RAM (for fast access I suppose) and that REALLY slows down QPE. I've seen QPE run at 47% memory useage when in this configuration. Yet another bug I need to troubleshoot or report.