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	qole	2009-10-30 , 21:45
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Originally Posted by debernardis

In the true spirit of "release soon, release often", I ask you to make available an interim version with the default tiny widgets and texts, to start using debian on the N900 even if with enlarging goggles.

I have put easy-chroot into Fremantle Extras-Devel, and I have uploaded a Fremantle-themed version of the Debian Sid image to my server (debian-squeeze-m5-img.bz2). You install easy-chroot, download and unzip the image file in /home/user/MyDocs, make a new /debian directory (by typing "sudo mkdir /debian") and then run

Code:

sudo qchroot /home/user/MyDocs/debian-squeeze-m5.img.ext2 /debian

and that will get you started. You are root by default, so be careful about running user apps. Apps can be run inside the chroot as user by typing, "hilda appname".

But like I said, it is still pretty unpleasant to use at the moment, and honestly, if those instructions are too complex for you, then you shouldn't be messing about with it...

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Last edited by qole; 2009-10-30 at 21:52. Reason: warning about being root by default

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