I don't understand how you guys have succeeded in installing Easydebian in a dedicated partition. I did everything that is mentionned here, but I'm stuck at the "tar cf - . | tar xfp - -C /mnt/n900sd". The first tries I did resulted in the phone rebooting after a few minutes. Then, I reflashed it for another reason, retried, and now it does not reboot but still nothing happens. I entered "tar cf - . | tar xfp - -C /mnt/n900sd" yesterday evening and the phone was still processing this morning. It was not frozen, I had still 100% control this morning. I just aborted the command and closed the terminal because, obviously, it was not working as intended.

Maybe I did something wrong, I don't know. I admit I don't really understand why we have to create two new directories in /mnt/ in the howto. Why wouldn't we just cd to /home/user/MyDocs (path to .ext2 file for me), mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 into /mnt/n900sd, and then run the tar command?

Just to be clear: I did exactly what is written. However, I don't understand the purpose of one of the steps, so maybe I missed something important.


P.S.
I also tried to only put the ext2 file into /dev/mmcblk1p2 using my Linux computer, then editing /home/user/.chroot to specify that the image file is in there, and then running Chroot or LXDE from Maemo shortcuts, but I get an error message "Mounting failure".