Thread: DebiaN900 - A set of scripts to facilitate the installation of native Debian (WIP)
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2016-07-03 , 18:16
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Sorry for neglecting this thread but my time has freed up for the moment so I'll be doing some more work on this.

Meanwhile, I snapped up this beauty which should speed up development. It's been sitting in the UK for a few months but it will be personally delivered to me this Tuesday.

I want to again thank all of those who offered me an N900 but I really did not want to accept a donation whilst I wasn't sure how much time I would be able to commit to the project.

Originally Posted by NIK510 View Post
I am curious can you connect USB devices?
Not yet. Host mode via debugfs is work in progress:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux..../focus=2133266

Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
Does DebiaN900 use some kind of preinit script on N900? For example to kick the watchdog, etc. We'll need such a thing on N950 but maybe there's no need to reinvent the wheel
There's no special preinit script. It's pure Debian.

Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
wicket: not polling github anymore, better to discuss it here.

there are lots of problems with running your script under Arch.

We don't have qemu-debootstrap here, it is advised to symlink it: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...-in-arch-linux

So I did it, then debootstrap fails on: mount: Bad exec format

Some search yielded I need to add the --foreign parameter. Did it, now debootstrapping fails because of missing /mnt/etc/hosts.

Do you have any ideas?
Please see my responses on the issue tracker. You need qemu-arm-static and then you can register the ARM executable binary format.
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DebiaN900 - Native Debian on the N900. Deprecated in favour of Maemo Leste.

Maemo Leste for N950 and N9 (currently broken).
Devuan for N950 and N9.

Mobile devices with mainline Linux support - Help needed with documentation.

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer
 

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