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Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by 白い熊 (Post 397946)

I've been reading through the easy debian threads of yours, but it's very confusing, tons of pages etc.
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Can you briefly specify just a rough guide of installing it, as flipping through tens of pages is overwhelming:

Which packages and files necessary and is there a special chrooting technique for them?

Where is your debian rootfs?

If I just wanna expand it then experiment with chrooting it, what are the two packages easy-chroot and easy-deb-chroot for?

I'm truly sorry. This is still an early beta test; I'm looking for people who either already know what this project is about or are willing to do the research to figure it out.

But, because you asked:

A good primer of the technical details of the easy-chroot project can be found here.

Easy Debian adds a more user-friendly layer on easy-chroot by adding an image downloader / installer and two scripts (/sbin/debian and /usr/bin/debbie) for using that particular chroot. It also adds a /home/user/.chroot file which has settings that can be modified.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

I found installer to be extremely easy to use - just a fiew clicks; download easydebian-chroot from extras-devel with application manager, then run it, select target flash drive and that's all.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 398238)

A good primer of the technical details of the easy-chroot project can be found here.

Thanks for this reference, I didn't see it before...

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

I will preface this with I don't have a N900 yet. From what I have read you should be careful messing around with extras-devel with a N900 since you could download programs that have not been optified and cause your phone not to boot.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

the Easy Debian packages should not brick your phone. But you leave Extras Devel enabled at your own risk, of course. You might brick your phone or even download mplayer.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

It looks like the image may have some bad filesystem errors. e2fsck fails after a LOT of warnings. Maybe mine didn't download/extract properly? Does anyone else see the same thing?

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by twoboxen (Post 415832)

It looks like the image may have some bad filesystem errors. e2fsck fails after a LOT of warnings. Maybe mine didn't download/extract properly? Does anyone else see the same thing?

I think you're right; despite the checksums and failsafes, it sounds like your install went badly.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

Install went well on my N900. Just start to experiment right now :)
What is the root pw ?
I started synaptic from inside Debian and it asks me for the pw.
Or can i just use the synaptic-app that is now on my N900 ?
Nice work !!

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by OptX (Post 420522)

I started synaptic from inside Debian and it asks me for the pw.

When you say, "inside Debian", what do you mean?

Synaptic should start without password if you run it from the Debian chroot; either choose the menu icon or open the terminal and type "debian synaptic".

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Originally Posted by OptX (Post 420522)

Or can i just use the synaptic-app that is now on my N900 ?

It should work; I can't promise anything about how usable it is. The Fremantle UI might make it very difficult to use.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

I've been playing with this for a day or so and it works pretty darn well. Next I'm going to install it directly to an SD card instead of using the provided disk image.

qole, you rock.