wakkamis | # 451 | 2011-02-09, 23:30 | Report

Yup.. pretty sure i got the idea that .ext2 was a disk image. Similar to an iso.
And that .bz2 are like a .zip or .rar file.

What I dont know how to do is extract files from the bz2 and create a ext2 image out of them. Only amount of linux i have used is the tiniest amount of ubuntu and the n900. heh.

did a quick search on how i might be able to do this and I was sent to this site: http://www.fs-driver.org/

ear0wax | # 452 | 2011-02-10, 07:51 | Report

That driver is so buggy, I would just use a live usb key or something and do it in linux.

theres a post in the forums explaining how, but its something along the lines of making a 2 gigabyte image

then format.

then mount somewhere and change to directory
nows the part youve had real trouble with
extract.
This all can be done on the n900 its self, But I warn you disk IO is slooowww, but possible. Personally i would do it all on a linux desktop.

wakkamis | # 453 | 2011-02-10, 14:19 | Report

Cool thanks for all the info! Even after all that I am sure it wont be as easy to just replace the other ubuntu image, but at least I learned something!

Will certainly give it a try.

Thanks!

ear0wax | # 454 | 2011-02-10, 18:01 | Report

Yeah you could mount an existing img and just format it.

tebsu | # 455 | 2011-02-10, 21:05 | Report

can anyone give a current state? i do not want to read 46 pages to know where this project is currently at.

ear0wax | # 456 | 2011-02-10, 21:41 | Report

Sure, lets just make a review post every page for people too lazy to skim a forum.

tebsu | # 457 | 2011-02-10, 22:38 | Report

what about a wiki-article which will be updated and post a link of that article in the first post?

lazy people? i just dont have time to read 46 pages just to know if one function works or not on this.

BLIZZARD | # 458 | 2011-02-11, 13:42 | Report

Good work, i will install It this weekend. Btw what about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/LucidReleaseNotes ? It supports TI OMAP3 Beagle board. Is our (N900) TI OMAP3, a Beagle board ?????

BLIZZARD | # 459 | 2011-02-11, 13:47 | Report

Just found that its not, it was a silly question after all . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Board

But i found that: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/ARM/n900/

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AlMehdi | # 460 | 2011-02-11, 14:16 | Report

But you could make it work. At least if you run it in R&D mode. The Ubuntu 10.10-omap3 works too but you need to change some files in the image. Just mount the image and add the files.

I don't know how long that project has come. Or what's currently working or not. I tried it out earlier but do not have a sd-card to do so now.