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Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay

I installed NITDroid auto installer. but i got failures... because multiboot (>= 0.2.8) application is not there. can any one send the link where i have to download the multiboot (>= 0.2.8). i searched in this site also. but its not there...... plz help me. if that application is there i can use 2 OS in my mobile...

Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay

hi ,

what are the dependencies for the automated installer. how we can install them before running the automated installer.

thanks

Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay

multiboot is in extras-devel, you need to enable the extras repositories.
Use

Code:

apt-get install -f

to fix missing dependencies. The nitdroid-installer does install a couple of things via apt-get also, you may read that in the installer script. If any interest, that is.

Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay

Updated manifest to use latest RC7 kernel

Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay

ANOTHER NEWBIE TUTORIAL FOR OFFLINE INSTALLING

I had problems with offline installing, i.e it didn't automatically find the files even when I put them in .nitdroid folder. So here is my way for offline installing.

NOTE: There is a NEWER VERSION of nitdroid-installer here, still not in repositories. But I haven't checked it. Maybe that is easier than this one, I haven't tried. However this one simply works.

Download N12_UMay.tar.bz2 from here and RC7 kernel from here (I didn't check the final1 kernel btw).
Put them in MyDocs (i.e 27 GiB "usb flash drive").

Create a file named nitdroid.manifest in the same MyDocs folder (if you're under windows make sure there isn't .txt extention there) with these contents:

Code:

# Root filesystem tar balls

rootfs                file:///home/user/MyDocs/N12_UMay.tar.bz2                                        a5846b46bce11bebbe3d3b0dab1663d6



# Deb packages

package                file:///home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_7-rc7_armel.deb                22b5eb2a0047bf131898a90774a70912

Make sure the MD5 of the files you downloaded matches the ones in the nitdroid.manifest file.

You need rootsh for the apt-get and sudo gainroot commands below. Install it from app manager or transfer its deb file to your N900 and install it.

Do the rest on your N900.
Now install nitdroid-installer (sudo gainroot then apt-get install nitdroid-installer). It's in Extras-devel (read here). This installs version 2.6. Open the file /usr/bin/nitdroid-installer with your favorite editor and go to line 390. (My favorite editor was nano, so you'll do it this way: apt-get install nano then sudo gainroot then nano /usr/bin/nitdroid-installer then press Ctrl + Blue Arrow + G type 390 and ENTER. In those lines you see if !check_md5 $file blah blah blah. Comment the next 4 lines by putting # marks at the start of the line. So it should like:

Code:

#            if !check_md5 $file $sum

#            then

#                FAIL "blah blah blah"

#            fi

Don't touch the other lines.

Now you're ready. Have an SD card inserted, in the terminal type sudo gainroot then nitdroid-installer file:///home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid.manifest (notice 3 slashes) and answer YES in upper case and enjoy. :)

Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hossein (Post 1269975)

NOTE: There is a NEWER VERSION of nitdroid-installer here, still not in repositories. But I haven't checked it. Maybe that is easier than this one, I haven't tried. However this one simply works.

It isn't a new version it is a totally new installer.
It installs Nitdroid on a folder on OptFS (eMMC), the original installer used in this thread instead installs Nitdroid on SD without consuming Maemo's disk space.

Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay

whenever i am writing apt-get install nitdroid-installer IT SAYS NITDROID-INSTALLER PACKEGES NOT FOUND.. PLZZZZ HELP

Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay

My nitdroud cannot see mydocs, please help me out here, it just sayd 2gb something, i cant see 25gb anywer,