Agreed! Sorry, following this thread as interested in putting Ubuntu on MY N900.
Seems to be beyond my confidence levels, haven't plucked up the courage to put U-Boot on yet.

@freemangordon: I can only mount the root partition on my uSD with your 2.6.37+ kernel. Would you please comment on the patches you have applied over nemo's kernel that lead to 2.6.37+?

Interessting set of scripts. https://github.com/trapd00r/n900 (but seem to be for maemo)





EDIT & PROPOSAL:

Found this:
https://github.com/robertcnelson/netinstall

I must say, that looks good. I propose we use this and add the n900 to this script. This would make it simply more comfortable to install Ubuntu. This would also add Debian as a choice. I'd do it myself but scripting is not exactly my strong point.

sorry to continue the window manager discussion but I believe this is a bit more relevant. Until 11.04 and maybe 11.10 hildon-desktop (the diablo one) was part of the official ubuntu repos. There is also a launchpad repository with cordia for ubuntu.

this is a somewhat unrelated but nice to see what else is going on (notice the chroot): http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com.br/...ry-online.html

cloned some repos for backup. http://code.google.com/p/n900/source/browse/

There's a small typo in the install.sh script which turns two arguments into one:

=== modified file 'install.sh'
*** install.sh 2012-06-28 02:57:10 +0000
--- install.sh 2012-07-15 20:39:48 +0000
***************
*** 306,312 ****
[[ -f "$image_name_raw" ]] || ( [[ -f $image_name ]] && zcat $image_name > "$image_name_raw" ) || (wget "$url" && zcat "$image_name" > "$image_name_raw" ) || exit 1
mkdir -p "$mountpoint_ubuntu"
skip="$(parted -m $image_name_raw unit B print | grep '^2' | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/B//')"
! mount -o "loop,offset=${skip}" -t auto "$image_name_raw $mountpoint_ubuntu" || exit 1
rm "${mountpoint_ubuntu}SWAP.swap"
cp -av "$mountpoint_ubuntu"* "$mountpoint_target"
umount "$mountpoint_ubuntu"
--- 306,312 ----
[[ -f "$image_name_raw" ]] || ( [[ -f $image_name ]] && zcat $image_name > "$image_name_raw" ) || (wget "$url" && zcat "$image_name" > "$image_name_raw" ) || exit 1
mkdir -p "$mountpoint_ubuntu"
skip="$(parted -m $image_name_raw unit B print | grep '^2' | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/B//')"
! mount -o "loop,offset=${skip}" -t auto $image_name_raw $mountpoint_ubuntu || exit 1
rm "${mountpoint_ubuntu}SWAP.swap"
cp -av "$mountpoint_ubuntu"* "$mountpoint_target"
umount "$mountpoint_ubuntu"

Has anyone tried the install script of late?

I'm currently going with the basic debian installation and the nemo kernel but, alas, it doesn't seem to work since there is no initrd.img in the kernel-adaptation-n900-2.6.37 rpm. Does anyone have a work-around? (I saw earlier in the thread that you don't actually need the ramdisk to boot but it wasn't clear from the post what changes to make in order to do that.)

Last time was last week. I could not understand what you are trying to achieve.

I guess I am mainly trying to figure out which options work for people. I tried choosing:

# grep . options/selected_* | cut -c-80
options/selected_firmware_source:meego
options/selected_image_source:ubuntu-core
options/selected_kernel:nemo
options/selected_target:/dev/sdc
options/selected_target_type:disk

but that just yields a boot directory looking like:

total 5084
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Jul 18 20:49 boot.script
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62453 Jun 26 14:33 config-2.6.37-10.7.Nemo.Adaptation.N900-adaptation-n900
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1170840 Jun 26 14:33 System.map-2.6.37-10.7.Nemo.Adaptation.N900-adaptation-n900
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1972136 Jun 26 14:33 uImage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1972072 Jun 26 14:33 vmlinuz-2.6.37-10.7.Nemo.Adaptation.N900-adaptation-n900

i.e. no ramdisk.

If folks have options which seem to work out-of-the box then that would be great. Else I'll work through the permutations

[EDIT]

I ended up creating a ramdisk with:

update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.37-10.7.Nemo.Adaptation.N900-adaptation-n900
ln -s initrd.img-2.6.37-10.7.Nemo.Adaptation.N900-adaptation-n900 initrd.img
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n initramfs -d /initrd.img /uInitrd