qole | # 51 | 2010-08-25, 01:09 | Report

Easy Debian can be made into Easy Fedora with the fedora-12 rootfs... At least that's what I claim in this post...

extendedping | # 52 | 2010-08-25, 20:40 | Report

I'm going to check this tonight thanks. I do wish there was an official "easy fedora" as I was able previously to get into fedora in a chroot but it was pretty bad (no yum, no indication on the status bar that you were not in the default os).

qole | # 53 | 2010-08-29, 22:51 | Report

Hi extendedping,

Apparently persistence continues to be a very effective method for getting what you want

I have uploaded a very basic Fedora 12 image file that will work with Easy Debian. Yum works (it was broken in the original rootfs), and I updated a few libraries as a test.

You can find it on my website:

http://qole.org/files/fedora12-m5-v1a.img.ext2.lzma

Put it on your N900, point your /home/user/.chroot to it, and you should be able to get a root Fedora prompt by typing "sudo debian".

extendedping | # 54 | 2010-08-29, 23:15 | Report

can't wait to try...

can't thank you enough either.

gsever | # 55 | 2010-08-29, 23:17 | Report

Could X-org and possibly following with XFCE be installed on this version of Fedora rootfs?

When I search on Debian repo I can see arm builds listed (e.g., http://packages.debian.org/lenny/evince) From Fedora's koji I couldn't see any arm builds http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=187753

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
There they mention of native ARM builds, wonder where those are?

I am eager trying this one out once someone gives an X-org pulse out.

gsever | # 56 | 2010-08-29, 23:22 | Report

Pehh, there is a seperate page for the ARM builds, but my sample pick (evince) can't make

http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/ko...o?buildID=3130

This might be a very noob question, but what are the differences and similarities between different Linux OS rootfs'es?

Debian ARM port seems like more supported and solid than Fedora version. Is this correct on your view?

extendedping | # 57 | 2010-08-30, 03:33 | Report

don't know what I did wrong...downloaded to .documents pointed (via the imagefile line) in .chroot and get this message...
Mount failure!

/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/fedora12-m5-v1a.img.ext2.lzma failed to mount on loop0


mount: mounting /dev/loop1 on /.debian failed: Invalid argument

dsawhney | # 58 | 2010-08-30, 04:22 | Report

the image file needs to be uncompressed before OS can mount it

qole | # 59 | 2010-08-30, 04:34 | Report

You need to decompress the file first:

That will take a long time...

Then change the .chroot file to not have the .lzma on the end.

extendedping | # 60 | 2010-08-30, 06:26 | Report

massive thanks, just ran lzma -d, changed in .chroot and sudo debian. installed httpd (apache in redhat) and tested, all works.

of course (being persistant) I hope there is a way to get easy debian back without having to comment/uncomment .chroot and that eventually there could even be icons to open and close fedora...but for now, the device just became indespensible to me...

thanks quole, boy will I be tired tomorrow!