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Originally Posted by qole View Post
A tarball of the Easy Debian Final image rootfs is available for those of you who prefer to use a partition.
Is this tarball supposed to replace the ".img.ext2" file?
If so - how can i use this tarball?
Hardware: N810 (latest diablo installed)
Software: Chroot.easy.deb 0.9-8 + auto installed the debain.img.ext2 file on my MMC2.
I ran out of space (i did purge the locales first!) after installing & uninstalling korganizer & tried to install evolution. The download of the files was fine - yet while installing it ran out of space.
Therefore i formated MMC2 in ext2 (didn't uninstall the easy.chroot.deb) and tried:

-> Untar the tarball on my ubuntu system:
I need admin rights & it untar's into one folder called "debian final" (something like that at least)
-> Put the folder on my internal (MMC2) Disk on the N810 (the disk is formated in ext2)
=> Doesnt work:
"missing debian.img.ext2 file"

I put the folders (usr, bin, ....) directly on MMC2
=> Doesnt work:
When starting chroot (from task bar) i get a terminal window for less then a second - so i can't even guess what the error msgs might be.

I'll try another complete reinstall (aprox the 10th this week) in about 2h.
Maybe one can tell me until then, how to propper use the tar file. I dont want to be limited to the img file.
BTW - why the img file after all? why not just a formated ext2 (ext3?) partition & not being dependet on the size of the img file anymore?
As a side effect, i can imagine it should bring some speed boost too, as the program doesn't need to work in a filestructure, packed into an img file, or am i wrong?