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[Debian] Deblet on the 770, - Is there any interest?

So, I'm thinking to start making a way to install Deblet properly on the 770, but I need to know if people are interested, if I make the restrictions:

* You'll have to download a initial debootstrap tar.gz (70mb) (installer might wget it), or make the first-stage debootstrap yourself

* It won't be a shiny installer and the "installer" won't be doing partitioning or mkfs etc for you, and will be run in a SSH or x-terminal

* It will require a swap partition on the RS-MMC most likely - and the "installer" may simply mkfs and sfdisk it to the right shape, requiring a 2gb card. It won't work with cloned OS2006/HE etc.

So, what I've picked up with the one person (zanshin) who made Deblet work decently on 770 is the following steps, also from the Debian sid 770 thread here.:

(Desktop# is at your desktop machine, 770# is in root on 770). I would like someone to try these steps out again and tell me what doesn't work - so we can get things rolling. You will probably have to pop your battery once or twice or more.

Desktop# debootstrap --foreign --arch armel lenny /root/debian_lenny_base http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian
Desktop# tar -zcf debian_lenny_base.tar.gz debian_lenny_base

On the 770, partition your MMC into a big ext3 partition, and a 128-256mb swap partition, and mkswap the swap partition and mke2fs -J the partition. Mount the ext3 partition in /mnt/deblet (mkdir it). Then copy debian_lenny_base.tar.gz to /mnt/deblet and tar -zxf it there.
770# export LC_ALL="C"
770# chroot /mnt/deblet mount /proc /proc -t proc
770# chroot /mnt/deblet mount -t devpts none /dev/pts
770# chroot /mnt/deblet mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
770# cp /etc/hostname /mnt/deblet/etc/hostname
770# chroot /mnt/deblet /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
(this will take a while)
770# mount --bind /tmp /mnt/deblet/tmp
770# mkdir -p /mnt/deblet/mnt/rootfs
770# mount --bind / /mnt/deblet/mnt/rootfs
770# chroot /mnt/deblet
(now in chroot, ch# from now on)
ch# apt-get install python2.5
ch# wget http://trac.tspre.org/svn/deblet/dep...stallerdeb.deb
ch# dpkg -x installerdeb.deb /
(verify /usr/libexec/deblet is there.)
ch# wget http://trac.tspre.org/snapshots/nit-...ackages.tar.gz
ch# tar -zxf nit-base-packages.tar.gz
ch# cd /usr/libexec/deblet
ch# debconf-set-selections debconf.preseed
ch# export NIT_ROOTFS=/mnt/rootfs/
ch# python

(py# now is input to the python interpreter.)

py# import deblet_installer, config, sys
py# config.PRESET = {}
py# config.NIT_ENVIRONMENT = "nit-env-basic"
py# config.NIT_REPO_PACKAGES = deblet_installer.from_file("/nit-base-packages/packages.conf")
py# config.NIT_FILL_IN_PACKAGES = deblet_installer.from_file("/nit-base-packages/fillin.conf")
py# deblet_installer.fake_start_stop_daemon_add("/")
py# deblet_installer.build_apt_repos_install("/")
py# deblet_installer.install_environ("/")
py# deblet_installer.fake_start_stop_daemon_delete("/")
py# sys.exit(0)

ch# passwd
(enter password for root)
ch# umount /proc
ch# umount /sys
ch# umount /tmp
ch# umount /mnt/rootfs
ch# umount /dev/pts
ch# exit

N770# reboot

(and in your boot menu (fanoush's), select the partition on the RS-MMC). And see how far you get. This will end up in a console login prompt ideally, but these instructions may fail before. So if you fail to do these, report what OS2006/2007HE/2008HE you have, your tablet configuration regarding MMC etc, and what errors you got during the process.

My intention is to support 770 as well as is possible with Deblet, so - any input is welcome - and thanks for your effort if you help me out - I hope I'll be able to help you out too with an updated platform for the 770. :)