Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

Icewm is good, light and very configurable - very nice look just out of the box! Go with it :-)

Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

Argh. I am trying to build a fresh chroot with all of the applications + xephyr and icewm. I ran out of space when trying to build it in my 1 GB image file, so I've sacrificed my bootable debian partition and I'm building it there. When it's done, I'll put it in the image file.

It gets really really ugly if you run out of space in the middle of a big apt-get install process.

Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

icewm looks awesome, also, if possible can you include another blank .ex2 partion with bigger space so we can add apps? or will it fit on this one.

and please include gimp if you can.

thanks,
maxzar100

p.s. im working on getting a lite version of xp to work on the tablet. I have this iso of xp hackers edition the iso is only like 500 mb, and the actuall files needed to run windows come out to be about 2.4gb so its possible. we shall see soon....

Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

What will you be using to emulate the x86 processor to run XP?

I still need to test whether that resize2fs will work and not be painfully slow on the NIT+SD as I had this fun a couple times.
On the aspect of Window Managers, I tried out Enlightment on the Nokia and it seems to fly pretty well - a better experience than I did with XFCE and KDE - at least once I got the main enlightenment menu remapped to a hardware key.

Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

I saw your Enlightenment screenshot. I must say it looks very nice. I have noticed that, while IceWM is tiny and fast, a big problem with IceWM is that there is really no GUI configuration available. It looks like you have to do all of your configuration in text files! Perhaps Enlightenment might be better? Does it have a GUI config?

Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

Depends what aspects you want to configure - things like color/themes/wallpapers or even the keybinder and whatnot are GUI configurable - the keybinder is a biggy since you can then map a hard key to run a command (such as that KDE right click script - which works great in Enlightenment as expected).

With that said, I have not located a way to modify the menus via the GUI - although such a beast probably does exist. There are quite a few "epplets" that add various functionality.

Now as far as resources used, I never really used Icewm before, but I get the general impression that it is lighter than enlightenment. Speedwise though - I found enlightenment to be very usable. I believe the install took maybe 8megs for the whole shebang, so I'd recommend taking a glance.

Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

there is a bochs emulator for tablets, and dosbox witch works with 98 and 95. So im trying to get a light version of xp to work. Im making the image with dosbox on my pc first.

Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

XP is NT, while 9x are DOS-based; dosbox does not have full compatibility, but enough for DOS-like systems. I seriously doubt XP will work at all (that way).

Re: Running Debian in a chroot
 

Looks like the current version of Iceweasel installs extensions -- I was able to install the Adblock Plus and del.icio.us extensions. I haven't tried themes.

I think the problem before was that Mozilla wasn't officially supporting FF 3.0, so they were letting you attempt to install stuff for FF 2.0, and it was failing. That's my guess.

Resizing the debian.img.ext2 image
 

I finally after running into the "out of space" jazz again decided to try the resize2fs ordeal, and it worked!

Step by step (in case anyone needs more details)

• I opened up a Debian shell and copied /sbin/resize2fs over to /media/mmc1 and then under an OS2008 shell (as root) copied it from mmc1 over to OS2008's sbin. (and I think I had to chmod a+x resize2fs since the FAT SD killed the execute bit)
• I rebooted, since I am too lazy to ensure the image is properly unmounted.
• After rebooting, in an OS2008 shell (as root) I typed: "resize2fs /media/mmc1/debian.img.ext 1512M" - the 1512M can be changed, of course, to whatever your target size is.
• Afterwards, I ran "e2fsck -f /media/mmc1/debian.img.ext2" to ensure there were no errors in the file system (I found a few, but they were fixed).
• Install, install, install. :)

Warning: Before others do my "opps", remember that FAT doesn't like files larger than 2gb!

Loving this chmod bit, Qole!