Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

great!

I will try this when I get home

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

you can download and extract it in your computer and then, move it to MyDocs, it will also be faster this way

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This is the option I am currently trying although I selected it to download now its just sitting there getting file information. Has'nt even started to ask me where I want to save it yet. I am doing this from work though(large corporate network) so will try again when I get home.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

Jayelzibub: If you download the image file on a desktop computer and then extract it on the desktop computer (using something like 7zip), you just have to plug in the N900 via USB and copy the debian-m5-v3b.img.ext2 file to your N900 and you're done. You don't need the installer.

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@Qole: a quick question.
This image, when uncompressed, will be mounted as a loop device? Where are changes saved, when they happen inside the debian chroot (installing applications, etc)?

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

soeiro: Yes, the image is mounted as a loop device. The file contains a complete read/write Debian file system. Most changes are saved in this filesystem, so the changes all happen inside the image file.

Note: there are some Maemo directories mounted as part of the chroot (including the user's home) so it is possible that changes can be made to some files outside the chroot, as well.

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@nox: did hstende's fix also work for you (in Spanish, right?)

@qole: I would guess that this little modification of /usr/bin/xephwm5 (i.e. replacing Information by Info in grep) should work for the majority of languages. Information translates to Information in German and French, while in Italian you have informazione, in Spanish información, etc etc.
So perhaps you could simply apply this little fix to the current v3b image, without any ado of a new version number? I think that would solve this issue for a large number of nationalities, though probably not all.

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Why don't I start making a v3c or v4 image? Any other changes needed?

EDIT: I was hoping for the return of openoffice.org 3.1 or 3.2 to Debian before making a new version...

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That would require a new installer and new easy-deb-chroot version, too, wouldn't it? That's why I was thinking hstende's "Info" fix should better be included immediately in v3b without changing the version number so that the many people downloading over the next 10 days are not bitten by the same bug as nox was now when they follow the instruction in the wiki to install locales.

Other changes would certainly deserve a new version number. For instance my suggestion of setting most of the environment variables in the image instead of the debbie/debian scripts: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...552#post572552

Personally I would also leave the sticky key hack commented out in the LXDE startup script (since it makes Ctrl sticky as well which I find very annoying).

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No! That's the beauty of the new installer! It downloads a text file from my site which contains the information for the files available to download. Once I have a new image, I just update the text file on my server, and everyone will start downloading the new image file.