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2008-08-23
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Originally Posted by neatojones
If it's Debian based, you can probably with ease use most of the stuff from the Deblet project (the installer)
I just noticed this on the E-Live distrobution web site:
Minimum Requirements: The minimum hardware for running Elive is a 100 Mhz CPU and 64 MB of RAM, but the minimum recommended hardware is 300 Mhz and 128 Mb of RAM. You don't need any special graphic card or 3D acceleration to run Elive.
http://www.elivecd.org/
It's debian based and these requirements are well within that of N800 and N810's specs.
I think I'll take some time (when I get it) to see if this distro is doable on the IT's. Anyone else interested?
http://trac.tspre.org/projects/deblet
I had similar methods working with the Ubuntu armel port so.
You do have to remember that you need to port/recompile everything for armel though if it's not a distro that's easily based upon debian.
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2008-08-23
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There are lots of distributions that meet those criteria. I don't think there's anything special about Elive; it's nice, but it's not alone. And I have run it, but not on a tablet.
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2008-08-23
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Originally Posted by geneven
Valid points. I guess I ought to clarify that my plan isn't to install E-live itself onto my N810 but to use it's package list as a guide for setting up debian to run E17 or another window manager with very low system requirements. I'm not particluarly attached to E-live myself...I've never even used it before.
There are lots of distributions that meet those criteria. I don't think there's anything special about Elive; it's nice, but it's not alone. And I have run it, but not on a tablet.
The reason I was pointing this out is that I've seen a lot of posts with people asking what packages ought to be installed to make a well rounded system when setting up Debian on their IT... This just seemed like a good starting point.
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2008-08-24
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If not for the Debian factor, I would be more interested in putting Puppy Linux or some Slackware-based distro (I loved Wolvix) on a tablet. But obviously Debian has a head start here.
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2008-08-24
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I think the idea of getting a package list from one of these minimal-requirements distros and then building a lookalike on the tablet is a good idea. It might even be worth packaging up as an Easy Debian thing; you download a big file and boom, you have the E-Live distro (or at least all the same packages 
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2008-08-25
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Exactly, and I'm not saying E-Live is the best or anything...I just thought it had really reasonable system requirements compared to the specs of the IT's, so I was using it as an example.
Actually, it might be easiest to just create a script to download all of the necessary files and then install them. That way, a new (enormous) install file wouldn't have to be created every time a package in the list got updated...it would automatically download the newest version of each package and then install them.
Actually, it might be easiest to just create a script to download all of the necessary files and then install them. That way, a new (enormous) install file wouldn't have to be created every time a package in the list got updated...it would automatically download the newest version of each package and then install them.
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2008-08-25
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Yes, I was thinking that after I posted. Either a script, or even better, a metapackage that depends on all of the packages that are included in your distro.
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2008-08-25
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Originally Posted by qole
The metapackage would definitely be the way to go.
Yes, I was thinking that after I posted. Either a script, or even better, a metapackage that depends on all of the packages that are included in your distro.
Similar I think to STSKeeps nit-env-x, nit-env-stskeeps.. you could actually work with him to build a nit-env-elive right into deblet...
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2008-08-25
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A metapackage would definately work and it would be a great way to keep a distribution updated, but I was assuming (possibly wrongly?) that the package list would already have multiple metapackages. Either way, the redundancy definitely wouldn't hurt anything. I think, if you already had deblet installed, the metapackage would be the easiest choice. If you weren't sure how to install deblet, a script/set of scripts to get deblet set up would be the best way to go. Unfortunately, I'm not too good at making scripts, but I think it is even possible for a script to ask you about partition changes and then call on another script or program to make those changes.
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Minimum Requirements: The minimum hardware for running Elive is a 100 Mhz CPU and 64 MB of RAM, but the minimum recommended hardware is 300 Mhz and 128 Mb of RAM. You don't need any special graphic card or 3D acceleration to run Elive.
http://www.elivecd.org/
It's debian based and these requirements are well within that of N800 and N810's specs.
I think I'll take some time (when I get it) to see if this distro is doable on the IT's. Anyone else interested?