At LAST!

My first go at getting Emdebian to run a GUI:


Yes, yes, there are no icons and the touchscreen library doesn't work so
the apps can't start (at least via the screen) but it's a start!

Silver USB cable on the left if ethernet-over-usb (which works fine), on the right is a USB key from which the root filesystem, kernel and modules were installed (not needed for subsequent operation but used for debugging by copying log files to the key etc.).

Stats:
Still too large at over 80Mb installed for a full GUI but that is still
100Mb smaller than a minimal Debian system without any GUI stuff.
Available only for ARM
Tested only on Balloon3 : http://balloonboard.org/index.html
Not installing cleanly at this stage - some fettling is required.

192 packages used.
Linux balloon 2.6.25.2-pxa270 #1 Sun May 18 22:38:11 BST 2008 armv5tel
unknown

ii dpkg 1.14.20em1
ii libgpewidget1 0.115-5em1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.3-2em1

Access:
Ethernet over USB (static IP only at the moment)
USB storage / keyboard
Serial connection
SSH pending

Lots to do to make it simple but at least it works.