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2011-10-02 , 13:59
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
Can someone please explain why meego can not be developed to install as an os directly to the N900 because quite frankly this sd method is bad and many people are just not able to use it due to lack of programming knowledge.
it can be installed without an SD, that's the eMMC method. tooling could probably be improved there, contributions welcome. it can't be "flashed", because it is bigger than Maemo5, and thus doesn't fit on the 256mb internal NAND

Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
This development has been on going for many months now and i really am suprised it is not available as a flashable image over Maemo.
different people have different priorities. I don't find it that hard to use an SD card (and apparently neither do many of our testers), I also find it reassuring that if things go wrong, I can just bump the SD and easily boot into Maemo. but: as I say, if you (or others) are interested in helping to improve installation with other techniques, I'd personally be happy to see that happen
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