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caveman	2014-05-28 , 20:28
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I prepared a card image of debian jessie to try on the N900. I am posting the torrent here for those willing to have some fun with it :-)

This is a minimal image, and not meant to be production-ready, but I find it worth a look.

The image is to be flashed to a 2Gb+ micro SD card:

Code:

xzcat jessie.dd.xz > /dev/sdX

where sdX is your device. This will destroy the contents on the card!

The image uses upstream linux 3.12 kernel from

Code:

git://gitorious.org/linux-n900/linux-n900.git

with branch

Code:

v3.12-rc5-n900

Check http://elinux.org for the current kernel status.

To boot, Pali's u-boot is required. Use the following file in

Code:

/etc/bootmenu.d

Code:

ITEM_NAME="debian jessie @ SD"
ITEM_KERNEL="uImage"
ITEM_INITRD="uInitrd"
ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p1"
ITEM_FSTYPE="vfat"
ITEM_OMAPATAG="1"
ITEM_CMDLINE="root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait vram=12M console=tty0 quiet"

Then run

Code:

u-boot-update-bootmenu

and if all goes well, you can reboot and choose debian at the menu.

It boots to the console and there is only the root user. The password is

Code:

rootme

By executing

Code:

startx

you can start enlightenment. Choosing the mobile profile gives a nice touch friendly interface.

You can load the n900 keyboard tweaks from the Arch Linux thread with

Code:

loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/rx51_us.map

In that thread there is even a map of the keyboard http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=205

To quickly connect to wifi, use the following:

Code:

wpa_supplicant -B -i interface -c <(wpa_passphrase MYSSID passphrase)
dhclient wlan0 &

When you are satisfied, you may proceed to network configuration in

Code:

/etc/network/interfaces

or using the network manager of choice.

I am thankful to the authors of all the pieces that have been used here to make this possible!

Have fun ;-)

thread hilights:
* for keyboard led, see post 53
* for battery info, see post 54
* to chroot into maemo, see post 57
* to set keyboard under X, see post 58
* kernel 3.16.0-rc1 on post 99; instructions on post 98

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Last edited by caveman; 2014-06-18 at 17:33. Reason: added refs to further info on later posts/fix u-boot config

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