lemmyslender | # 111 | 2009-08-03, 13:18 | Report

Can't wait to give it a spin. Being able to use the same partition to boot from and chroot into would be great (with the easy setup of course).

qole | # 112 | 2009-08-03, 19:58 | Report

Here's the rootfs for the partition. Just plain Mer 0.15 with tweaks to work in a chroot.

http://qole.org/files/easy-mer-015-1.tgz

You need to change, in Maemo, /usr/bin/mer-switch to run start-hildon-easymer instead of start-hildon... (no longer necessary when using easy mer 0.15 deb)

I am camping for a couple of days, but I'll try to get my updated .deb out the door asap...

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Last edited by qole; 2009-08-12 at 17:33. Reason: struck out the requirement to edit mer-switch

lemmyslender | # 113 | 2009-08-03, 20:00 | Report

Thanks, I'll d/l and try when I get home. Golf night tonight.

qole | # 114 | 2009-08-07, 15:19 | Report

New deb available in my repo, along with the image file (download with the installer). Hopefully the bugs are squashed.

Jaffa | # 115 | 2009-08-07, 15:23 | Report

You're alive! This is a Good Thing[TM].

lemmyslender | # 116 | 2009-08-07, 18:13 | Report

Qole,

Installed the rootfs linked to above earlier in the week. Worked with the old Easy-Mer. Booted to it as well - wireless device not ready? no wifi available. I didn't play with it too much though. No other problems that I noticed.

Installed the new version of Easy-Mer - forgot to edit my .chroot file on first launch. Got that fixed and booted into it no problem. A suggestion, now that Tear is included in Mer, you shouldn't need a menu item for it (nevermind, your menu item uses the Maemo Tear, with bookmarks, etc ) Maybe get rid of the Quit command? Every now and then I hit that instead of Logout and have to reboot to get back to Maemo.

I still have an issue with using TearBookmarks on the Maemo sidebar. It works fine until I run Easy-Mer, then it will not lauch Tear from a bookmark. It will still open a new window and bookmark editor though. Rebooting cures this until I run Easy-Mer again.

I'll play more later. Thanks for this great program.

pinguino89 | # 117 | 2009-08-07, 18:50 | Report

on my app.manager I still find verison 0.13.1 is it ok or will install an old version of mer?

qole | # 118 | 2009-08-07, 19:09 | Report

pinguino89: the version is 0.15.1, update your application manager.

lemmyslender: thanks for the bugtesting. I don't use Tear bookmarks, I'll have to install it to find out what's breaking there. The wifi problem is also an unknown, maybe because I installed Mer to my N800 and you have an N810? The Quit removal suggestion is a good one.



I have very limited experience in this area, but I suspect it is better than being dead.

pinguino89 | # 119 | 2009-08-07, 19:31 | Report

ok thanks, probably the program have ben updated less than a minute after i've updated the app manager

lemmyslender | # 120 | 2009-08-07, 19:51 | Report

Qole -

I have an N800 as well. I just tried rebooting into the Easy-Mer partition. Network icon (2 computers) shows up. Clicking on it yields menu with no wireless networks listed, just grey text indicating device not ready.

I have quickly looked but don't see any Mer info on restarting the wireless connection. Also what is the root password for the image, or do I need to set one?