hey guys...

was just wondering if there was any effect or difference in installing EasyDeb in either the hard drive or the MMC... which is better or is there no difference?

Thanks

Hard drive? There's no hard drive in the N900, just flash drives.

There's 2 way to use easy debian images:

1) from image files
2) dedicated partition

If you use from image file, it doesn't matter where you copy it. However, the internal flash drive has a better performance, the difference running easy debian image from the eMMC or flash drive is not major.

If you dedicate a partition for the easy debian, then the only advantage what you receive is that you will not be limited into the 2GB space.


In my opinion, the best way to use is to increase your 'home partition' size, and copy the image into /home/user and run from there.
With this, you can run easy debian AND use your phone as a pen-drive, and you can increase the image size if you wish because you will not be limited by FAT32.

I have a problem when starting oowriter with the icon. On previous use
I had clicked media player (in tools) and was unable to exit from it. The
usual X in the upper left hand corner is off the screen. If I kill the oowriter
process, say, using close debian, (or some other way) then oowriter and
media player do close but if I try to start oowriter again with the icon, media
player eventually appears and I am unable to use oowriter. This reminds me
of an earlier problem with styles and formatting... but probably not quite the same.

Is there some saved settings configuration file I can modify to stop media player
from coming up with oowriter?

BTW, in the LXDE I am able to open and close media player cleanly. So no problem here.

"Close Debian" does not terms or kills applications running under it. You still have to kill processes manually with the "ps" and "kill [pid]" combo if they stuck.

Necc: Close Debian should close all of the Debian apps. If yours doesn't, make sure you have the newest Easy Chroot package.

Sadly, it doesn't closes all running processes.

I started up chroot, like as i do everytime before, connected to all possible services from my computer.

After hittng close chrott and waiting a minute, i ran "ps" from maemo's ssh. Part of the result:


And the "must have" to verify that the file does not exist under maemo:

Second attempt:

First i launched chroot and openoffice:


And then i hit "close chroot" and waited to the window dismiss. I took a screenshot again:


Exactly. Nothing changed.

Then i went to the still open chroot prompt, and started to executing a few command. Ironically midnight commander launched up. As i has a maemo and easy chroot version of mc, i wasn't sure about witch version (maemo or debian) i just launched, so i tried a few other commands too:


It was weird how i could execute "inadyn" and launch "vsftpd" service minutes AFTER i closed chroot.

Just to make sure, i tried to launch these apps from the maemo's terminal, just to be sure:



According to FAM, "easy debian" verison is: 0.9.54-1fremantle1; "easy chroot" version is: 0.3.2-1fremantle1. Checked for new versions during the day.


Sorry if i wasn't too clear at some point, or if i made childish mistake(s) but it is getting too late here now and after i sending this post, i roll to my bed and fall asleep immediately.

I had tried to use ps (also with options aux...) figuring I would spot the process and then kill it but mediaplayer never appears.

Necc: next time, please try "sudo closechroot" from a command prompt instead of using the icon, and maybe post the terminal output... I wonder if something has happened with PR1.3 to (yet again) break the closechroot script?

EDIT: Just tried a similar experiment, ran OpenOffice Writer and then used the icon to close the chroot. OOo closed, as did the Debian terminal.

Weird... no "closechroot" command from terminal. (In terminal 'close' + tab and the full command not pops out.) I smell a reinstall and a long brainstorm where and how i could screw this up.

Try 'sudo closechroot'.