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Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
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One relatively unexplored idea is making the SD card as a bootable liveCD. It will allow you to simply use any computer at you disposal as the screen and keyboard. You will have full access to MyDocs, uSD and even /opt if you boot it from backup menu. Consider that the phone aspect of the n900 will still be available for you to make receive calls even when you have mydocs mounted as an external disc elsewhere. Of course the ULTIMATE would be to run the easy debian session on an external screen however I can not see how to do this without the huge pile of accessories required to connect to an external or a whole bunch of X over IP shenanigans that would be destined to fail.

I have already installed backtrack 5 to my SD card. This allows me to boot BT5 on other people computers from my phone to fix/hax/show off on the move. I am looking for a linux distro that fulfils the following requirements:
  • Ability to 'copy to ram' i.e. copy to ram then boot (running from ram for teh mega lolz speed)
  • Firefox (or perhaps opera) with flash player.
  • Light window manager, preferably LXDE.
  • The gimp.
  • VLC
  • All those non free codecs the freak stallman out
  • A mail client
  • Abiword, gnumeric, etc.
  • Zip/rar/7zip etc etc support.


Any suggestions for a livecd that fulfills the above requirements?
I got maybe an solution for a LiveLinux copied to ram with persistence on your N900 ...

On my phone I got my 16gb card vfat formated bootable with knoppix, acronis ti, systemrescuecd etc. with bootice, so I could boot an fully blown Debian with all my needs, backup other computers with acronis, kill viruses etc. ... on top of that I got portableapps with all that stuff I need in Windoze on the go (putty, winscp, firefox openoffice etc)

If you want I could help a little ...

sorry for my bad english

greetings, Claus

* I can also take phonecalls with my new toy

Last edited by GuruCrash; 2012-01-20 at 22:27. Reason: sarcastic joke