Re: To Deb or not to Deb
 

Penguinbait's windowmaker is still on Maemo.. not actually In the chroot environment which appears to be the focus of most of the answers here..

Windowmaker will also run in Debian/Chroot of course.. but again: like FVWM2 pointed out by Benson; windowmaker is not for everyone.

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LXDE is not just a window manager, like IceWM or WindowMaker or FVWM2. It is a very slim "Desktop Environment", which mainly means it has a file manager (which manages the desktop icons, etc) and some settings apps bundled in. It feels very full-featured.

Re: To Deb or not to Deb
 

And as for the original post's question, I think the whole idea of Easy Debian is supposed to be that you aren't really committing to much by installing it. Sure, you need a big enough SD card, but they aren't terribly expensive these days.

Go out and buy a 2GB card and swap it into your N810, fire up Easy Debian and download the image onto your new card. If you don't like it, oh well, no big deal. Delete the image file and put some videos on the card for watching on the bus.

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I keep getting an error after downloading the image file. A box comes up saying
"TAR ERROR

ERROR! ERROR! ERROR!

TAR FAILED!

(MAYBE OUT OF SPACE ERROR)

Unable to install EASY DEBIAN IMAGE FILE"

Under the box in the terminal it says "tar: unrecognized option '--usecompress-program'

I have 3.2 gig spare on my memory card and 30.8 m on my N800.

Do you think the tar file is corrupted?

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I'm having real problems trying to partition and clone the OS to a larger card

External 8 gig on a N810

I keep finding lots of threads that seem out of date? I try to follow the instructions but it's just not happening. Can someone recommend a thread which I should follow that is up to date?

Thanks

Steve

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I decided to drop down to a 2 gig card and ignore the card corrupted message, I then did the install twice and it is all working!

Thanks