The Debian package that I used was from Verement's pages on the developer site.
There's lots of helpful tips on there.

The developer release doesn't have an ftp client, but there is one (and ftp server) in the Debian package.

In order to get files onto the empeg you can use ZModem transfers, e.g. from minicom/hyperterminal (just cd into the correct directory on the empeg, then start the zmodem transfer on the PC, and it happens automatically, bash must call sz or whatever for you).

The 9Mb Debian tgz took about 15 mins to download.

philb