Re: Thumbs up or down for new OS2008 for N800
 

Yeah just fixed it. :D

Re: Thumbs up or down for new OS2008 for N800
 

I ended up reflashing before starting. But that was because I had installed an app
which hinderd my ability to use apt-get.
The instructions I gave are very simple to follow and I included one by Schmot that
would help newbies like me. I would do first 3 steps with apps you have installed
and if you can accomplish those three you should be alright to continue to the other
three steps. If you are familiar with linux and especially xterm the whole process should
take 40 minutes. Make sure to remove any app monitoring apps they really screw
up the process because they are so cpu/memory hogs.
Do the simple dual boot first if it goes well you can go back and add ext boot or even
USB boot. The beauty of Fanoush's (step 4) and step 7 is they automate the whole process
all you need do is hit return after each section is completed. The dual boot is an amazing
app. I now have 3.3gb for os! Afterwards I highly recommend doing the USB Hub process
I wrote about earlier in this thread. Laughingstok is right that this is so much better
than anything apple has. I bought this it as a simple portable internet device and
these new apps and os have transformed it into a more powerful multi use computer.
Good luck. Dan

Re: Thumbs up or down for new OS2008 for N800
 

Dubwise and Laughingstok,

Can either one of you give exact link to microb font repair post.

Thanks,

Dan

Edit: Found after reading 200 posts!!

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...t=14995&page=2

Re: Thumbs up or down for new OS2008 for N800
 

i coudlnt imagine using my N800 without OS2008!

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My n800 has gained new powers thanks to Penguinbait and Pipeline.
If you followed this thread you can activate your usb port and add
a hard drive(I added four sdhc cards). Now you can add with the following
two apps dvd read/write capabilities and iso image capabilities.
On the road I can now access dvd's. Enjoy, Dan

dvd app and iso image app are both here.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...434#post134434

Re: Thumbs up or down for new OS2008 for N800
 

Dan,
Thank you for the post on the other thread re the "simple steps" to get USB OTG enabled. Can you please just lay out step by step the installs/applications and hardware i will need to get this done?

The previous threads jump around a bit much for me to follow and a 1.2.3. guide would help out a lot.

Thanks in advance,

Re: Thumbs up or down for new OS2008 for N800
 

I'm in Europe on business trip, i'll try to put
something together in a couple of days when i have sometime.
the instructions on this link are pretty easy to follow.
I had several new users thank me for how easy they were to follow.
dan

Re: Thumbs up or down for new OS2008 for N800
 

Thanks for this Dan! I'd read through all of the previous guides, but held off since they were all written with smaller SD card sizes in mind that I hadn't done the math to calculate for a 16 GB SDHC. Following your modified instructions and updates (Red pill worked great for getting a couple things to install), and Milhouse/PenguinBait's links to a few things in other threads, I installed perfectly on the first try. I re-did the partitioning/formatting steps a couple of times before feeling confident enough to run Fanoush's initfs_flash because I thought the umount errors were a little odd and I was doing something wrong. Eventually it looked clean though.

Cheers! I'm now up and running with a 3 GB boot partition and 11.9 GB "Internal memory card". Now to wait for a 32 GB card to drop in price (or fine... another 16 GB SDHC). Only complaint is that I can't mount the internal SD card over USB (because the OS is running on it) unless I reboot to internal flash, but since writing big files over USB feels way too slow, I'm likely to pull the card out and stick it in a reader until I get a big second card.

Re: Thumbs up or down for new OS2008 for N800
 

everythingsablur,

Glad I could help make dual boot easier to install. It is amazing what you can do with the n800 running os2008.

Now I will instruct on how to make it a truly amazing business tool. I was on a trip for a month and the n800 was my only computer! I was able to play videos for clients, had incredible wifi at every hotel I stayed in as well as wifi throughtout the cities I visited. I also for the first time using KDE did actual office doc's!

If you followed my simplified instructions above on dual boot I will now show you how to add KDE office quickly and painlessly.

Go back to Pronuke instructions and add steps 6(installs tar app),7(installs bzip2 app) and 8(installs/activates targnu). Then send a private message to PenguinBait(do a search for his message) and send him a pm saying that you have successfully installed the dual boot and are running the os2008 from mmc. There are several KDE threads to help explain in detail just do a search. Also PenguinBait has a website that has additional info. When PenguinBait sends you the KDE just follow his instructions for loading KDE or go back to Pronukes instructions and follow steps 11, 12, and 13.

On Pronuke step 12 make sure to change in xterm under sudo gainroot the file name.

KDE358.tar.bz2 /KDE358.tar.bz2 to KDE358v2.tar.bz2 /KDE358v2.tar.bz2
and
SUP.tgz /SUP.tgz to SUPv2.tgz /SUPv2.tgz

Step 13 of Pronuke instructions you need to change the following file name

/tar jxvf KDE385.tar.bz2 to /tar jxvf KDE358v2.tar.bz2
/tar jxvf SUP.tgz to /tar zxvf SUPv2.tgz

The first one will take about 40 minutes.
The second one will take about 20 minutes.
Make sure to reboot by typing: shutdown -r now
Go into extra menu and click on KDE and it will load in about 2 minutes.
Make sure to logout from KDE so that you go back to dual boot mmc menu without problems. To use KDE properly you will need a keyboard on n800(I use Nokia bluetooth keyboard) or keyboard on n810. There is an onboard keyboard in KDE when you are in a pinch but it is very small(see screenshot below). There must be over a 30 programs on KDE! :)
Enjoy! Dan

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When I upgrade to OS2008, old application can't work properly anymore. The problem is:
Segmentation fault

Maybe I have to downgrade to OS2007. But I don't know how. Please help me. Thanks in advance.