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2009-12-23
, 04:47
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#92
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@Qole: you have a bug with easy-deb-chroot (0.9.35-1fremantle1)
When installing this, dpkg complains about an error in the post-installation - basically your /var/lib/dpkg/info/easy-deb-chroot.postinst script has an error.\
The fix: edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/easy-deb-chroot.postinst and comment out the "else" conditional line
When installing this, dpkg complains about an error in the post-installation - basically your /var/lib/dpkg/info/easy-deb-chroot.postinst script has an error.\
The fix: edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/easy-deb-chroot.postinst and comment out the "else" conditional line
Code:
CHROOT=/.debian
TSTFILE=/usr/bin/hilda
if [ ! -d "$CHROOT" ] ; then
mkdir /.debian
else
# if [ -f "$CHROOT$TSTFILE" ] || [ ! "x`/sbin/debian echo hello | grep hello`" = "x" ] ; then
# closechroot
# export YESCHROOT='yes'
# fi
fi
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2009-12-23
, 10:41
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#93
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everytime I try to extract the image my n900 tells me after 10m that it has run out of memory and then hangs. Any ideas?
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2009-12-23
, 12:26
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@ The Netherlands
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#94
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Originally Posted by Ph0b
Ph0b: I'm a Linux newbie. I've created a partition as you instructed and extracted the new rootfs onto it. How to procede further? How to use the new debian install? How to install and use apps? Do I still have to install the easy-chroot package on my N900?
My microSD card is really slow, so I've installed easy-debian on a new partition of the internal drive.
BTW: You missed a step in your instructions.You first have to create the "/debian" folder in order to mount it.
EDIT1: I've found it. First installed "easy-chroot" using the app manager to get the useful scripts. Then ran the example command given on the page: http://qole.blogspot.com/2009/03/eas...for-maemo.html. This starts oowriter (however terribly slow).
@Ph0b:
Note1: like stated elsewhere its better to name your chroot dir like "/.debian" (starting with a dot) to prevent the maemo tracker-indexer going crazy (it snoops >80% cpu resources constantly).
@Qole:
Note2: after the closechroot script has been executed there are still 2 mounts which remain:
1. none on /.debian/dev/pts type devpts (0)
2. /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /.debian/home/user/MyDocs type vfat (0)
@Qole:
Note3: After having installed the easy-chroot (from the app manager) I could not manage to find the userchroot script. Shouldn't this script also be packaged with the easy-chroot package?
Last edited by murat; 2009-12-23 at 16:59.
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2009-12-23
, 13:13
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@ Birmingham
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#95
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First off I'm quite new to Linux can someone please make sure i am doing things right! 
Just enabled devel, installed easy-deb-chroot (hope I was meant to install that one and not easy-chroot - or does it not matter, because they both disappeared from the app lists once deb was installed??
)
Anyway the 1.8Mb ish easy-deb-chroot downloaded and then went on to install, however, it came up with the yellow bar saying "unable to install". So I thought ok, disabled devel to come on here and ask to see what was going on, but before I did that I checked the menu and there were five or six extra "apps" so I clicked on Install deb one and away it went.
Downloading easy debian image file to Mydocs now (1hrs 25mins on the clock).
I hope this is right, any advice much appreciated.
If someone can confirm these steps I will put together an "idiots" guide (with screenshots - for the none-linux people out there) for the wiki, just want to make sure I am doing it properly first
EDIT: Just finished downloading and it came up with an error message after testing the file: "file seems to be bad"
Then gave the option to download or keep the bad file so I'm downloading again......
Last edited by davedickson; 2009-12-23 at 14:27.
Just enabled devel, installed easy-deb-chroot (hope I was meant to install that one and not easy-chroot - or does it not matter, because they both disappeared from the app lists once deb was installed??
)Anyway the 1.8Mb ish easy-deb-chroot downloaded and then went on to install, however, it came up with the yellow bar saying "unable to install". So I thought ok, disabled devel to come on here and ask to see what was going on, but before I did that I checked the menu and there were five or six extra "apps" so I clicked on Install deb one and away it went.
Downloading easy debian image file to Mydocs now (1hrs 25mins on the clock).
I hope this is right, any advice much appreciated.
If someone can confirm these steps I will put together an "idiots" guide (with screenshots - for the none-linux people out there) for the wiki, just want to make sure I am doing it properly first
EDIT: Just finished downloading and it came up with an error message after testing the file: "file seems to be bad"
Then gave the option to download or keep the bad file so I'm downloading again......
Last edited by davedickson; 2009-12-23 at 14:27.
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2009-12-23
, 15:31
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@ Birmingham
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#96
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In addtion to my post above:
I have managed to download and extract the image file (got the congrats message)
What do I do next ? I clicked the icon "Debian chroot" from the main menu (is that all we have to do or am I missing a step?) and the following error came up:
Mount failure!
/home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v2.img.ext2 failed to mount on loop0
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /.debian failed: No such file or directory
The same error came up when I clicked on Debian LXDE as well.
Is this a major problem or am I just being a n00b lol
Is there a way to fix this either with Xterminal or any other way??? I think I know what the problem (I guess its something to do with post #92) but have no idea how to fix it!
Thanks in advance
I have managed to download and extract the image file (got the congrats message)
What do I do next
? I clicked the icon "Debian chroot" from the main menu (is that all we have to do or am I missing a step?) and the following error came up:Mount failure!
/home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v2.img.ext2 failed to mount on loop0
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /.debian failed: No such file or directory
The same error came up when I clicked on Debian LXDE as well.
Is this a major problem or am I just being a n00b lol
Is there a way to fix this either with Xterminal or any other way??? I think I know what the problem (I guess its something to do with post #92) but have no idea how to fix it!
Thanks in advance
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2009-12-23
, 15:35
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@ Finland
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#97
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Originally Posted by qole
If you can live with the (lack of) speed...
Bah! The N900's bzip2 doesn't work with a file of this size! It fails with "File too big"!
We will have to use the kludgy command:
Code:cat debian-m5-v2.img.ext2.bz2 | bunzip > debian-m5-v2.img.ext2
Originally Posted by man bzip2
EDIT: Oh, you mean FILE size, duh, must get coffee...
-s --small
Reduce memory usage, for compression, decompression and testing. Files are decompressed and tested using a modified algorithm which only requires 2.5 bytes per block byte. This means any file can be decompressed in 2300k of memory, albeit at about half the normal speed.
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2009-12-23
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#98
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Originally Posted by davedickson
Is there a way to fix this either with Xterminal or any other way??? I think I know what the problem (I guess its something to do with post #92) but have no idea how to fix it!
Thanks in advance
Try running this in a terminal:
sudo gainroot
ls -al /.debian
mkdir /.debian
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2009-12-23
, 15:38
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@ Vienna, Austria
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#99
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Originally Posted by davedickson
didn't "no such file or directory" give you any hints?
Mount failure!
/home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v2.img.ext2 failed to mount on loop0
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /.debian failed: No such file or directory
you need to "mkdir /.debian" as root to create a mount point (see murat's post).
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2009-12-23
, 16:06
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@ Birmingham
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#100
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
Worked perfectly, thanks! There was no folder, so mkdir /.debian, tried the icons again and everything works.
Try running this in a terminal:
If you get a no such file or directory then run
And try the launchers again. I think this may be related to the post-inst script problem as it appears that is responsible for making that directory.
Thanks a lot
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