Coffee | # 1641 | 2010-08-02, 22:25 | Report

Can anyone please assist me?
Sorry a simpleton when it comes to this sort of stuff and not a linux user. I have downloaded: debian-m5-v3b-rootfs.tar.bz2
I have extracted it and have on my n900 under /MyDocs.
I don't know how to install it on my MicroSD card, partition 3 (mmcblk1p3). Could someone please help me?

ivyking | # 1642 | 2010-08-02, 23:19 | Report

on a linux pc : plug your n900 in via usb , select mass storage mode ,using gparted create your partition , mount the volume , using file-roller extract the .tar.bz2 onto your sdcard partition 3 .
you can do the following on the phone , but it will take some time...
open x-terminal and do the following

apt-get install bzip2
cd /home/user/MyDocs/
bzip2 -d debian-m5-v3b-rootfs.tar.bz2

assuming , you have already created and formatted partition 3 on your sdcard , for use by easydebian

cd /
mkdir /easydebian
mount /dev/mmcblk1p3 /easydebian
cd /easydebian
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v3b-rootfs.tar

i hope this is what you needed..

Coffee | # 1643 | 2010-08-03, 04:16 | Report

Thanks mate, exactly what I needed, last section as had it all partitioned, extracted and in MyDocs ready.
Cheers

Coffee | # 1644 | 2010-08-03, 12:13 | Report

guys,
downloaded, extracted and fully installed on the partiton of the microsd card. So i have rebooted and realise i don't have any of the usual icons on the desktop to load it. does this mean it hasn't installed correctly or need to do something else to load it?

karas38 | # 1645 | 2010-08-04, 15:54 | Report

Finaly it works without sue but it's longer than with terminal command debbie gramps.

zeltak | # 1646 | 2010-08-06, 01:42 | Report

Hi guys

discovered easy debian today and boy is it a sweet discovery

first of all thx qole for all you work..its truly remarkable

I have 2 questions:

so i have successfully created a nice launcher and i can launch keepassx perfectly (and very fast!!) only problem i cant get the keyboad to work no matter what. i followed all the wiki tricks (power button, the Fix LXDE keyboard" application icon etc..nothing works. since i cant put a pass word i cant use keepassx..is there any solution to that?

also..how does one run a cli app..i tried creating a launcher as i did for keepass x for the cli prog task. i used "debbie task shell" for example in the exec section . the launcher appears but nothing happens when i press it..what am i missing?

thx again

Zeltak

Coffee | # 1647 | 2010-08-06, 01:49 | Report

guys,
With the install. Do we have any files on the internal directory not required that we can erase to free space. I noticed a folder /home/user/img-install for example, what about the unextracted image, is it still floating around somewhere?

pkubaj | # 1648 | 2010-08-06, 14:52 | Report

How can I make Easy Debian image larger? I decided to upgrade to Squeeze completely, there were some pulseaudio issues, which I eventually had to remove. Everything was going well, then the message about the lack of space. Can it be largened?

soeiro | # 1649 | 2010-08-07, 13:58 | Report

Now that Debian/Squeeze is frozen and it is starting to morph into the next debian/stable, is there any chance of building a new image with squeeze?

extendedping | # 1650 | 2010-08-07, 14:14 | Report

how I wish one of the smart folks here would make an easy fedora. It took me 2 days to get chroot fedora and rpm and yum seem broken plus when I umount it a df shows tons of errors (so I reboot the phone).