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	Estel	2012-05-19 , 16:16
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Running chroot is out-of-scope for this thread - we're talking about running system(s) directly. Please, check at least first post before posting...

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immi.shk	2012-05-19 , 16:42
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can you please update the first post with whats working(telephony, Wifi, HW-Video etc)

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	qwazix	2012-05-20 , 18:00
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http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-prei...hf+omap.img.gz

the file cannot be found and I replaced that url in the installer with

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/1...hf+omap.img.gz

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	qwazix	2012-05-20 , 20:20
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Latest version does not seem to work with 12.04 modified to release (see previous post)

Code:

 E: Package 'openssh-server' has no installation candidate
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/tmp/install-chroot-part.sh: line 45: alien: command not found

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	int_ua	2012-05-25 , 13:57
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Page 20 and reading...

unknown.obvious: I'm having trouble imagining how to include your kernel in the script. Does anyone have any propositions?

pali: I'm also having trouble understanding new U-Boot nolo atags policy (is policy the right word?). Do I have to modify the script behaviour? Right now it's:

setenv atagaddr \$init_atagaddr
setenv bootcmd 'mmc init; fatload mmc ${MMCPART} 0x82000000 uImage; ${INITRDSCR} ${BOOTM}'
setenv bootargs '${KERNEL_PARAMETERS}'
boot

Originally Posted by ivyking

attached is a patch against rev 77 which just changes 3 lines..

Great, thanks

P.S "gibibytes" is not a typo

Originally Posted by skykooler

Could you provide a .zip of the files? I can't branch from Launchpad for some reason (it gives me the message: Permission denied (publickey).
bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: Unexpected end of message. Please check connectivity and permissions, and report a bug if problems persist.)

I can do it one time, but what about updates? I'm not comfortable with extending "bzr commit; bzr push" with additional actions. Can you provide a script with automatic upload capability?

Originally Posted by pali

I downloaded Kubuntu image from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/re...ecise/release/ booted uImage kernel (with uInitrd) but not working :-(

Looks like we need more details...

Originally Posted by pali

and what is this installer doing? sorry but why to create something which create system image? this sounds like windows installation process

The installer was intended to make 11.10 images bootable while they were not. Are they bootable on N900 whithout any modification now? I didn't try it for a long time

Besides that script tries some N900-specific workarounds not available in official packages yet and provides some additional options. BTW, if someone feels like doing something upstream.. just do it

Over time the script became somewhat bloated.
It's all in bash, and I hope it's relatively easy to understand. If you need any comments...

Originally Posted by pali

ah, ok. but I think that somebody could publish working image. it is really not good idea to have installer for arm devices...

what dd my sd card? no!
Needs nemo image fixed partition? Then it is bad too! I want to have reparitioned my SD card as I want. And I want to have more OS.
So I cannot test nemo image...

We don't have any ideally working image, the whole effort is about making one

And I think that for this we need anyone being able to see and understand the workarounds.
What do you propose to do with partitioning? Old U-Boot works for only with the first partition being fat FS with uImage and boot.scr. And I don't want to drop it's from "supported" options.

Originally Posted by qwazix

Maybe ubuntu could be the solution to flashing usb-less N900's. I haven't tried it but maybe it would work if we copied the maemo binary flasher from rootfs and used it booting from ubuntu. Fortunately my usb's are still in place but I thought maybe putting this idea on record here might help a poor fellow who's usb is out.

! Interesting. Other distros might be an options too, obviously. Have you added it to the USB-related threads?

Originally Posted by MastaG

I can post detailed instructions for installing kubuntu but I think it's best the installer.sh gets updated for this.
So far no crashes

Well, supporting internal eMMC needs it's manual modification and therefore cannot be fully automated, right? I'm eager to see any patches

but not going to use eMMC myself though.

Last edited by int_ua; 2012-05-25 at 14:04.

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pali	2012-05-25 , 14:13
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Originally Posted by int_ua

pali: I'm also having trouble understanding new U-Boot nolo atags policy (is policy the right word?). Do I have to modify the script behaviour? Right now it's:
setenv atagaddr \$init_atagaddr
setenv bootcmd 'mmc init; fatload mmc ${MMCPART} 0x82000000 uImage; ${INITRDSCR} ${BOOTM}'
setenv bootargs '${KERNEL_PARAMETERS}'
boot

Please do not create your own boot script. Create proper bootmenu entry instead. I will change again internal u-boot atags passing because of upstreaming process. But format of bootmenu entry will not be changed (I update u-boot-update-bootmenu script)

Originally Posted by int_ua

Originally Posted by pali
I downloaded Kubuntu image from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/re...ecise/release/ booted uImage kernel (with uInitrd) but not working :-(

Looks like we need more details...

Problem was with bad /etc/fstab. To use other partition /etc/fstab and bootcmd must be changed.

Originally Posted by int_ua

We don't have any ideally working image, the whole effort is about making one And I think that for this we need anyone being able to see and understand the workarounds.
What do you propose to do with partitioning? Old U-Boot works for only with the first partition being fat FS with uImage and boot.scr. And I don't want to drop it's from "supported" options.

Ubuntu/Kubuntu/... has one image for OMPA3 devices, so we should have one image for N900 (or some daily image).

For other parition support, just write somewhere visible (not like "Beware of the tiger"

) what is needed to change (e.g cmdline and /etc/fstab).

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pali	2012-05-25 , 14:14
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Originally Posted by pali

"Beware of the tiger"

Heh, today is Towel Day

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	int_ua	2012-05-25 , 14:44
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Originally Posted by immi.shk

can you please update the first post with whats working(telephony, Wifi, HW-Video etc)

See the first section, "Hardware support"

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	int_ua	2012-05-25 , 17:24
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Originally Posted by qwazix

Latest version does not seem to work with 12.04 modified to release (see previous post)
Code:
 E: Package 'openssh-server' has no installation candidate
/tmp/install-chroot-part.sh: line 45: alien: command not found

Thanks

Try revision >= 80, the sources.list was outdated. It also fixes links.

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unknown.obvious	2012-05-25 , 20:38
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Originally Posted by int_ua

Page 20 and reading...

unknown.obvious: I'm having trouble imagining how to include your kernel in the script. Does anyone have any propositions?

Is this your webspace? http://people.ubuntu.com/~apachelogg...0-integration/

You could put a kernel package or a tar.gz there for the script to download. Maybe if you compile/package kernel-source on n900-ubuntu you even get armhf packages, I didn't try that. If this isn't your webspace and you don't have access to one.... things will get a bit more complicated.