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	xxxxts	2010-09-18 , 14:28
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WOW! So you can boot Maemo 5, MeeGo, Ubuntu, Debian, and NITDroid.

What is the deal with Fedora, Mer, and Neopwn?

The installation looks simple enough as long as you have NITDroid installed (bootloader already set up) basically just create the partitions and make .item files in multiboot.d?

Could you enlighten me on MeeGo? Is it stable at all?

Thank you, very informative.

Also any other links you could provide would be great.

Edit: found this for MeeGo: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Install/MMC

Last edited by xxxxts; 2010-09-18 at 14:40.

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aligatro	2010-09-18 , 14:41
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Honestly, I didn't try to install MeeGo yet, because there are no proprietary drivers in the image(right now people have to compile their own images), so things like GSM, 3G, camera are not working. But I will definitely try it when nokia releases the image.
About Fedora, you can install it but you will only see the black console. Mer, I didn't try and Neopwn you can't get it right now, unless you buy their flash card with preinstalled neopwn.

The installation looks simple enough as long as you have NITDroid installed (bootloader already set up) basically just create the partitions and make .item files in multiboot.d?

There are other bootloaders too, but yea. Also, you system needs to be modified for n900. So, you can't just download armel linux and boot it.
You need to copy kernel binaries, and do other stuff to make it work.

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	xxxxts	2010-09-18 , 14:56
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Originally Posted by aligatro

Honestly, I didn't try to install MeeGo yet, because there are no proprietary drivers in the image(right now people have to compile their own images), so things like GSM, 3G, camera are not working. But I will definitely try it when nokia releases the image.
About Fedora, you can install it but you will only see the black console. Mer, I didn't try and Neopwn you can't get it right now, unless you buy their flash card with preinstalled neopwn.

There are other bootloaders too, but yea. Also, you system needs to be modified for n900. So, you can't just download armel linux and boot it.
You need to copy kernel binaries, and do other stuff to make it work.

Gotcha, I am not a Linux guru by any means - I would really love to boot Debian and Ubuntu. Is there anymore documentation that you could possibly link to or provide that will make the installation of Debian and Ubuntu a bit simpler?

I found this about Mer: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Status - looks pretty useless to me.

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aligatro	2010-09-18 , 15:10
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Originally Posted by xxxxts

Gotcha, I am not a Linux guru by any means - I would really love to boot Debian and Ubuntu. Is there anymore documentation that you could possibly link to or provide that will make the installation of Debian and Ubuntu a bit simpler?

I found this about Mer: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Status - looks pretty useless to me.

I can only give you a link to ubuntu installation guide.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...6&postcount=51
But you already saw it. Right now, there is almost no benefit of booting into full system. It runs faster than easy debian, but many things don't work. For example, you can't receive calls. Also, battery charge is experimental there, so it can possibly ruin your battery. Also,I am concerned about using EXT3 as filesystem. Ext3 was designed for harddrives, not flashcards. Basically, it can kill your flashcard faster.