extendedping | # 1 | 2010-08-10, 20:31 | Report

I do really like easy debian and wish there was a similar easy fedora. seems to me there are enough differences between debian and a redhat style systems to actually warrent learning both seperately (rpm based, different locations for many files etc).

I am pretty much a noob and it took me 2 days to get arm based fedora running in chroot. even then yum/rpm did not work and upon unmounting the chroot a df was populated by tons of missing file or directory output till I rebooted.

anyway thanks for listening. and please don't think I am not loving easy debian. It's just as I said that working on that is making me forget the little fedora (actually centos) that I have learned.

extendedping | # 2 | 2010-08-11, 03:50 | Report

wow no thoughts whatsoever. but bye bye nokia has 165 posts (mostly from people whining about how whiners should not take up their important time).

I guess perhaps talent (of which I certainly am not a part) really is leaving in droves.

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fatalsaint | # 3 | 2010-08-11, 04:04 | Report

Now now.. don't get all sensitive here .

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38987

http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Fedora

kingoddball | # 4 | 2010-08-11, 04:51 | Report

Nope not me. Easy Debian is great! We can't run a heavy gui anyhow... Lag's and get too slow.

SimonGie | # 5 | 2010-08-11, 06:56 | Report

XFCE runs very well on Fedora with no lag.

extendedping | # 6 | 2010-08-11, 18:05 | Report

I read those threads, unless I did not get something, they were mostly about a dual boot. but to hack a good working fedora chroot I did not find much. like I said I did get it working but with no yum/rpm and tons of missing file/folder messages after an umount (I had to mount with qumount but unmount with umount) it did not really seem functinal to me. oh well easy debian is great I'll try not to be greedy and be happy without a fedora counterpart. sigh..

fatalsaint | # 7 | 2010-08-11, 18:29 | Report

I dont understand.

The broken yum/rpm thing sounds like something went wrong in the building of your Fedora root package, regardless of dual boot or chroot..

As far as Chroot vs Dual Boot there isn't much of a difference. You can follow the steps in the Dual Boot.. get a full Fedora Root onto your SD card partition or even inside an image file.. whatever you want.. then you simple "chroot" into it from a terminal in Maemo.

Now, if you want the integration and such from qole's easy debian scripts.. thats still doable.. with likely minimal changes to his scripts.

Did you download the rootfs from Jebba?

http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Fedora#rootfs

That's seriously all you should need. Download the rootfs, untar it to a partition.. don't mess with bootmenus or kernels as you dont need them in a chroot.

The freemoe-fedora-install on Jebba's pretty much shows you everything you need to do. It even has the chroot command in the end of it.

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extendedping | # 8 | 2010-08-11, 19:07 | Report

thanks I will try again tonight. I am pretty sure that was the image I took. when I do it this time I will document in detail each step of what I do and post it here for feedback if that is ok...

fatalsaint | # 9 | 2010-08-11, 19:11 | Report

Sure. If I get a chance I'll try and get it setup too so that I can help troubleshoot better.

SimonGie | # 10 | 2010-08-11, 19:21 | Report

Follow Jebba's guide up to where you extrat the rootfs. the chroot into it. to get yum working, you need to rebuild the rpm database.

Do this by:
let it do its thing and then run
I did this and got yum working.