Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

770 with OS2006-49. I already checked, no losetup. Do you know, does this kernel support loop device ? If I can find a binary for losetup will it work ?

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

In bad form, I am answering myself...
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...?t=3140&page=2

-o loop is not supported by the mount-command on the 770 but somebody from the mailinglist made a binary of losetup which lets you work around that.

So, if I can find or compile losetup, it should work.

Of course, since I am booting from my card and not flash, and I made a 1gb partition, I can just untar the XFCE stuff to usr/local, since I have enough space.

But, I was interested in finding out why the loop device is not working, and not everyone is booting off thier SD card....

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

Not sure, it looks like your OK, are you runnning? I can try to compile losetup if it can not be found? I thought it was in the firmware at some point I played with it, but I never installed it?

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

Thanks, for that.

I actually already grabbed it from http://packages.debian.net/sid/mount/armel/download

I just unarchived it and grabbed the losetup binary, and it worked like a champ :-)

of course, now my 770 craps out trying to bunzip/untar.....

So, I untarred everything on my mac, and plugged into USB and am copying the files over....then, I will remount the image and mv them from the card (not in the image) to the image.

Then I will play with XFCE for a few days, and decide I don't need it. What a way to waste time :-)

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

I found a small problem in my script, the tarball has been fixed as of right now.

If you installed to mmc1 it created a file in /usr/bin/ called mount1.sh

inside /usr/bin/mount1.sh

Download -> mount.sh

You need to change this
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk1p1 /media/mmc1
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmc1

to this
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk1p1 /media/mmc1
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmc2


Sorry, intall script has been updated,

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

I only have 61MB available in root - fresh install of the latest HE on a 770 - nothing except becomeroot and xterm installed. I deleted all of the stock images, documents, music and video. Is there some way around needing 65 mb for the install?

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

Well you could do this, does the Hacker edition support mount -o loop? Others reported 770 does not, HE is closer to n800 so it may?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/mmc1/install.img bs=512 count=209715
mkfs.ext2 /media/mmc1/install.img
mkdir /root/mnt
mount -o loop /media/mmc1/install.img /root/mnt

If you can not do a mount -o loop, the script will not work for you. You will need to follow the the link the late elvis dropped.

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

red pill mode, nuke the help files. thats 8+ megs right there.

Re: XFCE INSTALL SCRIPT - NO PARTITIONING - you to can have XFCE!
 

I didn't have enough space in root so I flashed, which gave me lots more. Now XFCE is working nicely.

Edit:

However, after I spent a few hours reinstalling most of my programs, I made the mistake of choosing the menu option that I took to mean start XFCE on bootup. I thought that would be amusing.

It was amusing. I am now perpetually rebooting, which means that I get to reflash the device, reinstall XFCE (If I decide to) and reinstall all the programs I just spent hours reinstalling.

There shouldn't be a "trap door" menu option that forces reinstallation, or it should be marked with a skull and crossbones.