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Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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/

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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Originally Posted by wakkamis (Post 940470)

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

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/file/file2G.img bs=1M count=2048

then format.

Code:

mkfs.ext2 file2G.img

then mount somewhere and change to directory

Code:

mount /path/file2G.img /media/image

cd /media/image

nows the part youve had real trouble with
extract.

Code:

tar xjvf nameoffile.bz2

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.

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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!

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

Quote:

Originally Posted by wakkamis (Post 940975)

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!

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

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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Originally Posted by tebsu (Post 941272)

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

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

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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Originally Posted by ear0wax (Post 941288)

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

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.

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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 ??:confused:???

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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Originally Posted by BLIZZARD (Post 942297)

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 ??:confused:???

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

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

Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

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Originally Posted by BLIZZARD (Post 942304)

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

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.