Cloning or Chrooting

[ranph]

I'm planning to clone my N810. But first i need some answers on a few questions.

1. What is better clone to external SD or internal. (i expect with external you can backup and maybe put it into another N810 ?)
2. Do i clone or can you get the same apps with debian Chroot? Which installs on a external sd card
3. Is cloning foul proof. I read the deb and it sound easy enough for me to understand (basic linux )
4. DO i first need to clear everthing on my Flash before doing a clone. I just installed every nice app. (ofc i want more in the future)

[josiahg777]

Hey ranph :)

1) I chose to clone to my internal SD so I could still swap out my external card for file transfers, switching between cards and so forth. The only advantage I could think of for cloning to the external SD is the amount of space. (internal 2gigs, external up to 8 gigs) But I personally would suggest internal :)

2) The debian chroot is a completely separate operating system that you can install to run alongside your normal operating system.

3) cloning with penguinbait's .deb is pretty safe. Nothing is ever a 100% guarantee, and there is a small chance that it will mess up your tablet, but for the most part, you just download the .deb and install in the application manager and you're good to go :)

4) No, you do not need to clear your flash. In fact, the new app you just installed will be copied over along with your operating system.

I hope this helps :)

[ranph]

thnx ...will try it then

[fatalsaint]

My current setup.. I cloned Diablo to Internal so that I had 2GB worth of space to store Diablo Apps on.. and I have Debian running on the external so it has 8GB of space to install apps on.

No reason you can't have both :D.

[allnameswereout]

What does 2 or 8 GB matter if he's using internal flash of 256 MB, and an external SD card of 2 GB (default N810)?

IMO it seems best to run your OS, and use a Debian install on your external SD card. Run your preferred apps in the chroot, and export them to DISPLAY=:0

If you have only 2 GB external SD you'll have to limit the other files on the card. But that goes without saying. For this purpose a bigger (and/or faster) SD card might be preferable.