Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

I would like to start playing with Mer, so I have a few questions toward that goal.

1. I just got to the point where I cloned Maemo from the internal flash to my freshly partitioned internal CF. I partitioned into 256MB (vfat), 2 768MB ext3 and the rest (220MB) as swap. Does Mer play nicely on a partition of the internal CF? I read through the install instructions and didn't see any reference to running it this way, the ones I saw involved flashing the device. Maybe I missed something?

2. What is the minimum comfortable space one should use for a Mer install?

3. Will software in the Maemo repos work with Mer?

Thanks,
--vr

Re: Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

The flashing method is experimental, the "normal" method involves running from an sd card.
Here are the installation instructions

Re: Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

You must use Mer bootmenu, other bootmenus may seriously harm your Mer installation.

Re: Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

it seems like both bootmeus has become incompatible with each other, use one for mer the other for clonetosd. One won't boot the other.If I want to use mer I have to install mer's bootmenu and to use my clonetosd I have to install pb's bootmenu. I finally realise that after recloning at least three times thinking the clonetosd went bad. Turned out it was just the bootmenu. Now why not just have one bootmenu to boot them all?

Re: Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

The patches are there now in fanoush initfs_flasher.tgz I think, - I just think pbeasy isn't updated.

Please read http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Documentation/Bootmenu - it tells how to get things to co-exist.

Re: Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

Ah, ok. there is an option in pb to update bootmenu, so, I guess I'll try that now. Thanks

Re: Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

I just tried this,updated pb bootmenu and it doesn't work. Does this work for anyone?

Re: Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

Right: clone to SD, then install mer bootmenu, set up the .item file for cloned OS, refresh the bootmenu, be happy - that's the usual recipe :P

Re: Mer + pb/pbeasy
 

I am booting both now after doing all that and reinstalling mer, finally dual booting peacefully.