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Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by n900_ (Post 1249013)

Ok, but what's exactly your problem ? Any logs ? Size of new partition ?
I resized fat partition and created new by gparted on pc too.
Did you use dd tool ? (file system created by gparted doesn't matter, because dd change it to file system from image - it's ext3 if you use estel image)

New video (cold starting debian) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfiT...e_gdata_player

My problem is the next: when I create the partition (size=3,5GB) ext3 (tried too with ext4), but the problem is that Chroot not starting, out (file not exist in directory). One question esta new partition also be detected for FileManager? Because in my case not ocurrer this.

I think the problem is in the use of dd tool, because I use commnad in Ubutnu terminal (command cp of desktop estel´s image to new partition ext3). Please Can you show me how to realized this step.:confused::confused:

Or, You could open another thead explaining these steps:D

Regards:D

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

I did it on n900 terminal (estel image on sd card)
It take some time (1,7MB/s)
But it should be working on PC - dd if=/path/to/file of /dev/sdxx (check number of partition by gparted or sfdisk -l, in my case /dev/sdd4 (same time as n900)

PS: You can check progress of dd by typing in another terminal: "kill -USR1 pid" (you can check it by top)

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by n900_ (Post 1248793)

Other programs also starting faster.
But on the video I ran libreoffice before so n900 loaded it from ram - with reseted swap libreoffice starting in ~17seconds.

I will make video with other programs after reseted swap

Quick guide: (it's my way to do it, you can do it by several other ways)
1) Install bootmenu on n900 - now you can access all emmc 32GB flash (not only 27GB vfat partition)
2) Reboot n900 with open keyboard and choose usb connection
3) Resize 27GB fat partition and create new partition >3.2GB
4) Copy content of image to partition by dd tool (you can do it on n900 or PC)
by example:
5) Change chroot config by editing /home/user/.chroot - remove # from #IMGFILE=/dev/mmcblk0p4
6) It's working
7) You can convert ext3 partition to ext4 by terminal (in this case you must have power kernel, but I think everyone have it)
Type in xterminal on n900

in step 2 you say choose usb connection, i get:
1)internal nand
2)internal emmc
3)(external SD partition) N/A
4)power off (when not connected to a charger)

and then 2 more options below:
1)press menu/ctrl for USB mass storage mode
2)press shift for network mode

and when i choose usb mass storage mode while connected with usb cable i get a pop up with n900 and SD card folder, then it dissconnects after a few seconds.

thats y i cant make partition as mention here to store the image file.

can u suggest what i should do.

thanks

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by n900_ (Post 1249235)

WooooooooOw, yipiiii,:D:D:D:D:D:D I do that, thank you very much, achieves run easydebian from ext4 (3.5GB), apparently the most important part is to make the transfer with dd.tool. (in nokia n900)

Code:

dd if=/media/mmc1/debian-m5-estel.img.ext3 of=/dev/mmcblk0p4

Easydebian definitely runs faster and smooth.:eek: You can even open some programs at once. I love my nokia n900:D:p

Regards:D

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by luunaitk12 (Post 1249279)

I also had the same problem is not whether it will be an error with bootmenu.. I recommended install backupmenu, reboot and choose the second option.

Then press w and done! This is so much easy.:D

Regards

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by nisheet (Post 1249092)

any1 here to help????

As I have understood, for now this is impossible, install and run flash player, for system resources. (lagging, stuttering)

Regards:D

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

I wanted to create the partition with gparted but it doesnt recognize the partitions that allready are it says something like"not assigned" I dont want to reflash the emmc.
Any idea? or another way to create the partition?

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by sulu (Post 1234768)

[1] image@Estel: http://lorienart.pl/debian_wheezy0sulu.img.lzma @qole: http://qole.org/files/debian_wheezy0sulu.img.lzma

Just some points :
- Sulu, this image is armhf ? If not, have you created one as you were testing it some months ago ?
- Qole's link of this wheezy sulu's image is corrupt when trying to uncompress;
- the LXDE desktop has no wallpaper and menu when "clicked", even if we try to configure ".config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf". I've tested it on N900 & N9;
- in Debian prompt, "sudo su" is needed before apt-getting;
- I am trying to setup a more complete wheezy image : 3GB, LibreOffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, Iceweasel + Java, etc. Is it better to grow Sulu's wheezy image or distupgrade Sulu's or Estel's squeeze image ?

I'm very interested in Debian armhf to use scientific softwares : wxMaxima, Python/SymPy/NumPy/MatPlotLib, etc.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

I've dist-upgraded Estel's squeeze image to wheezy by :
[root@m5estel: /etc/apt] echo libasound2 hold | dpkg --set-selections
[root@m5estel: /etc/apt] apt-get dist-upgrade
[root@m5estel: /etc/apt] apt-get purge avahi-daemon
Suggestion : increase the image size to > 3.0 GB (e.g., 3.5GB) because wheezy takes more space, i.e., Estel's squeeze image has 1282MB free, but after conversion to wheezy we have just 717MB free (even after apt-get clean & apt-get autoremove).

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Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1246606)

Thanks a lot for You reply, sulu. I'm convinced, that slow start of LXDE is due to WICD sh*t starting, despite that I've literally purged everything that had wicd in package name, same for network-manager and it's dependencies. Still, I get prompts and errors mentioned earlier, on every LXDE start:
wicd asking for password
wicd complaining about inability to connect to d-bus
wicd complaining about it's interface being disabled
finally, ugly pop-up saying that i'm not connected...

Other than that, and chromium problem, there isn't anything else wrong.

If we :
[root@m5estel: /] apt-get remove network-manager
then the result is :

Code:

The following extra packages will be installed:

  python-glade2 python-wicd wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk wireless-tools

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  network-manager network-manager-gnome

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  python-glade2 python-wicd wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk wireless-tools

Need to get 591 kB of archives.

After this operation, 6,661 kB disk space will be freed.

I have the same wicd errors when starting LXDE.
Removing the above wicd packages reinstalls network-manager and wicd errors remain !
Due to network-manager, after each apt-get/dpkg :

Code:

Errors were encountered while processing:

 network-manager

 network-manager-gnome

So, it is better to leave network-manager.

As Estel cited, chromium-browser remains not updated, as well as openjdk-6-jre and sound packages :

Code:

The following packages have been kept back:

  alsa-utils aqualung chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n gnome-alsamixer gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libasound2

  libasound2-plugins libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 openjdk-6-jre pavucontrol pavumeter pulseaudio

  pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils

So I've added Iceweasel/Firefox :

Code:

apt-get install --no-install-recommends iceweasel

but without Flash / Java plugins.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

Upgrading Sulu's squeeze image to wheezy is simpler :

[root@m5sulu: ~] apt-get dist-upgrade
[root@m5sulu: ~] apt-get autoremove

Chromium web browser gives "Segmentation fault".

As the Sulu's squeeze image and Sulu's wheezy (simple) image, in this upgraded wheezy image the LXDE desktop has no wallpaper and menu when "clicked".