Another note, if needed, is that you can mount /dev/ in your chroot as well.
mount -o bind /dev/ /path-to-chroot/dev/

So we get BT mouse support? And yes: Slackware is the better one (and my fave on bigger PCs)

Or you can do like I did and just copy everything from /dev to the Fedora root /dev directory. . .

BTW, I have many command-line apps now working, and I am working on building a Yum repository that works for Everything and Updates, since the one at linux.org.uk does not have repodata for them. In the meantime users can attempt to use the development repository at

http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/ar...arm/os/Fedora/

It seems fairly complete and has a repodata directory so you "should" be able to use it just by enabling it. If not I suppose it could be added manually to yum. I haven't tried it yet.

To get X to work in a Fedora file system mounted at boot probably the easiest thing is to copy over from Maemo /usr/bin/Xomap and the touchscreen library it needs, which is which is /usr/lib/ts-0.0.so.0. Obviously there will be a lot of other stuff that will need to be copied as well to get it bootable. Of course copying files should only be viewed as a temporary measure until actual working RPM packages can get built.

Well Slack is fine and all, but does Slackware, or Maemo for that matter, have a tablet compatible repository with 9500 tablet compatible packages?

Fedora does!!

It's been a long time now since I posted this thread. Unfortunately back then the repositories weren't up yet. Since then I've been very busy, until now, and haven't had time to play with Fedora. It's nice to see they have the repositories working now.

I think it's hilarious to be able to to do yum update on the N800!

So does debian

But seriously I am glad for this. I am no fan of Fedora .. not that it isn't a great OS but because I have personal business-model issues with the main contributor of it.. Red Hat... I used Fedora from 1-4 or 5 and drifted off near 6.. it's a great distro and I am very happy to see an alternative moved the ARMEL arch.

The more software and the more companies looking to make compatible binaries for our Nokia's the better... whether they are Slack, Gentoo, Fedora or Debian... I like the options for my desktop.. I like the options for my tablet..

But like John... I think I'll stick with Debian.

Hmm. Fedora for is interesting from perspective that Intel has based their Moblin 2.0 stack on Fedora..

Anyone actually tried to make this stuff boot?

From way back when:
http://vidar.gimp.org/?page_id=52

Of course, the ARMedslack distro is "armv3, little endian, old ABI", so Debian arch arm, not armel; that means it's not easily bootable on any recent version.

It does make me wonder how hard it could be to start from there on an armel version, but I don't have the time. Maybe over Fall or Christmas break I could try a little; if I were to make any headway, then it can be a package-a-week routine in spare time.

Yes. I've tried. This thread goes way back to the beginning of the year when I first gave it a shot. I guess I brought it back fro the dead Since I'm more familiar with RPM stuff, and the armel binaries are there, I figured I would give it a shot. It is NOT much fun because Maemo is based on Debian and Fedora initscripts are VERY different.

Certainly it's possible to boot it. Johnx has proved that by getting Debian booting. It will likely take some changes to the Fedora initscripts, and some Debian symlinks to the Fedora init to get the Debian-based initfs to pivot the root properly. Once that has been done everything else should be fairly straightforward. Unfortunately I never had the time to work more on it. Hopefully at least, however, it was this thread that got Johnx going with Debian, or at least helped give him the idea. . .

So far I've been able to install quite a lot of stuff in my Fedora partition, and it all works. Yum, however, is very problematic, and I ended up installing most of the RPMs by globbing them in. I'm hoping that others will give it a shot and help things along. If there are yum problems they need to be reported back to upstream.

It's always good to have multiple distro options.

To get you started, get my bootmenu.d patches from http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=23051 , this will make the booting much much easier to accomplish.

And make a linuxrc in / of your fedora system like this:
http://trac.tspre.org/projects/deble...basics/linuxrc

And have a initscript early in the process that does mount --move /tmp /boot (make sure boot exists)

And make a initscript early in the process as well that uses this script to gain console viewing:

http://trac.tspre.org/projects/deble...ges/console-fb

You will need a module pack from http://trac.tspre.org/svn/deblet/dep...1-omap1.tar.gz , which should be in /lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/ i think, and then depmod -a (not sure about paths)

that should gain you a console + sane booting OS

I'm going to resurrect this thread, because someone found the problem with Yum in our environment. It is a typo in a python script! Someone put a 1 instead of an l in "armv6l" and this breaks Yum.

I tried, last May, to get Fedora working on my tablet, only to give up when Yum would not work at all for me. So this is good news!

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00009.html

That should make it more possible to get stuff installed.

EDIT: They also have Fedora 10 available now from the project page.

EDIT2: I can verify that this bug still exists in Fedora 10 for ARM.

EDIT3: Even with both Fedora 8 and Fedora 10 repositories added, the application selection is slim. For instance, no OpenOffice or Firefox in the repos. Pretty disappointing.

EDIT4: Found abiword in Fedora 8, tried to install it, and it had missing dependencies ("link-grammar"?). I officially shrug and walk away.