Thread: MeeGo 1.2 release postponed for a month
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tswindell is offline tswindell
2011-04-20 , 09:56
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Originally Posted by mishmich View Post
Aha. Got it. Thanks. Harmattan is to the n900 what Maemo 5 is to the n810. I'd love to test MeeGo on my n900, but am reluctant to try it until I have a device I can use instead of the n900 - because I rely on my n900 for a number of things, including keeping in touch with people in the UK on the phone, Skype & e-mail. This has been really helpful.
Provided you have a spare Micro SD card, and you take your SIM card out before booting MeeGo, you can play with it _without_ affecting Maemo at all. Though most of the poeple using MeeGo @ N900 use a uboot enabled kernel. You can still use the flasher program to load the kernel without flashing it to the device. This means that all you have to do is copy a current MeeGo DE or N900 image to a spare Micro SD card, pop it in, turn the device off, then run flasher with '-l -k path_to_kernel -b' wait for it to say "Waiting for devices, then plug your powered off N900 into your computer running flasher using the USB cable. And it'll boot into MeeGo Completely non-destructive.

Obviously this process is a bit fiddly, as you need to have a host machine around to boot the N900 into MeeGo.

Alternatively, just installing the n900 uboot kernel from extras-devel really isn't that risky, and wont effect your system at all. But will boot MeeGo when there's a Micro SD card with MeeGo on it inserted in the N900.
 

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