Thank you for no flames This is probably not for you, however, if you do not know much about Linux administration. If you are comfortable enough to use command line stuff then you may wish to read on.

I'm not going to post much more on this here, but feel like I should at least give a few pointers since I started the thread. The thread is primarily meant for developers:

1) The root image is just a basic image with no apps at all, so don't get too excited. You have to install the packages for whatever you want or need, but at least the packages work and are not tgz. All the Fedora packages are available in the repository, but unfortunately right now yum is broken because they haven't yet created a repo database. For now you have to download the packages manually to install them. Hopefully that will get straightened out soon.

2)You don't have to replace Maemo to try it. Your Maemo stuff is safe as long as you use some common sense. You do need a SD card with lots of free space! Read elsewhere on how to partition, format and mount the partition. Once you have a partition you can extract the Fedora root image into it. Then you chroot into the Fedora root image. At that point the Fedora root image is your os and the Fedora apps will work. So far I have found that all of them work, but the problems associated with doing a chroot are readily apparent. Those problems include no /proc filesystem, so certain things, such as DNS resolving, don't work, so you need to type the actual ip. In order to work properly the Fedora root image needs to be bootable from the tablet. Hopefully there are enough people interested in this to make that happen relatively soon.

3) The primary thing that needs to be done, besides getting the repos working, is to find which maemo packages/files need to be in the rootfs to get it to boot on the Nokia tablets. Then RPM packages, or at least a tgz, for those files can be made so the Fedora image can be booted

4) Nobody is working on hildonization, so don't expect the touchscreen to work Please keep in mind that the Fedora ARM version is in no way targeted toward the Nokia platform. I just found out about it by chance. Nobody there is interested in hildon, AFAIK. If you want that to work then I would advise working on porting the hildon framework over to it. So far I'm just using it in Xterm and over SSH. I haven't tried any X apps yet. They are reported to be working, however, so it should be possible to use xkbd with them once the packages are installed.

5)Everything seems to work so far and that gives access to most ALL the Linux packages available from Fedora. It is only a matter of installing the packages.

Best Regards,
gnexus

Update:
A few more notes:
1)You can get /proc working with the following command:
mount /proc /proc -t proc

You can get DNS resolving working by first downloading dhclient-3.0.6-10.fc8.armv5tel.rpm from the following url:
http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/ar...m/os/Packages/

then running the following commands:
mount /proc /proc -t proc

rpm -Uvh dhclient-3.0.6-10.fc8.armv5tel.rpm (you need the package first!)
dhclient

You should now have DNS working!