Untested revision 156 157+ adds option to select directory as target. It will be used as a rootfs chroot and in the end there will be a dialog to choose final destination.

Would you mind to comment your code a bit? For me as a person with programming experience, it's not obvious what the code does!

I want to install Ubuntu to mmcblk0p4 (5GB) and try different kernels (with u-boot). Can you provide necessary steps for booting into it, or add options in your script for using an existing partition? backupmenu gives access!

Most of the installing time is probably uncompressing the nemo image, why not install the files otherwise?

Ok, I'll try to add some comments, thanks for suggestion
It already has an option to install to existing partition. Just input it as target.

Nemo image? What revision have you tried?

askubuntu:How to start service in a chroot independently of the host system?

Looks like it was /sys

going to try, so many updates

i have this dual booted with maemo and its amazing. i want to also have nitdroid as well. i was playing around with pali's uboot and just cant figure it out. i have uboot pr13 dual booting i would appreciate some help. I visited nitdroid forum and im lost. using the custom kernel for lubuntu 12.10. Please help me out on this.

STATUS: Booted
REVISION: Latest
MICROSD: old sandisk 16GB
BOOTLOADER: uboot by pali 2012.04.1
OPTIONS:
additional_packages:acpid i2c-tools wireless-tools ubuntu-minimal lubuntu-desktop openssh-server watchdog alsa-utils mc htop nano lshw file bsdmainutils rfkill powertop iotop lxde xorg iptables onboard
boot_parameters: default by script - root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait console=tty0 omapfb.vram=0:2M,1:2M,2:2M mtdoops.mtddev=2 nosplash elevator=noop panic=20
dist_upgrade:1
selected_firmware_source:local
selected_image_source:ubuntu-core-unstable
selected_kernel:custom by unknown obvious
selected_target:/dev/sdf3
selected_target_type:disk
target_partition_suffix_root:3
COMMENTS:
I had to purge a blueman and replace network-manager by wcid.
Thanks for a great work
What about OC (like dsp profile) and bleeding edge drivers ?
It will be amazing

STATUS: rebooting automatically due to no init found
REVISION: 163, === modified file 'install-chroot-part.sh' (properties changed: +x to -x)
=== modified file 'install.sh' (properties changed: +x to -x)
=== modified file 'just_chroot.sh' (properties changed: +x to -x)
MICROSD: 8gb
BOOTLOADER: U-Boot pali's
OPTIONS:
additional_packages:acpid wireless-tools ubuntu-desktop openssh-server alsa-utils pulseaudio
boot_parameters:root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait console=tty0 omapfb.vram=0:2M,1:2M,2:2M mtdoops.mtddev=2 nosplash elevator=noop panic=20
dist_upgrade:1
selected_firmware_source:local
selected_image_source:ubuntu-core-unstable
selected_kernel:custom
selected_target:/dev/sdc
selected_target_type:disk
target_partition_suffix_root:3

errors:

smc91x not found
mounting /dev/mmcblkp3/ on /root failed

It seems that I didn't have partitions 2/3 at all. Maybe they were corrupt or something. Got to try again

After 2nd try I've got the same thing. It seems that the partition table is not correctly written.

I think you'd better ask in the nitdroid thread since it's nitdroid that is not booting...

Third try was the charm. Booted, got past unity greeter but no unity to be found. I can see the desktop and launch a terminal via ctrl+shift+t but unity complains something about opengl es. Trying now to install lxde and see what happens.

Pity, I'd like to use unity...