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@Capn_Fish: Hang on for a couple days longer while I clean it up. Also, stop by #maemo if you have ideas or requests.

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Better?

Hmm, I just watched the mojo slideshow (hey that rhymes!) presented at the Embedded Linux Conference last month. The numbers he quotes on pages 25 & 26 are much higher than they quote on their web pages. Either there's some of that magic powerpoint handwaving going on or their web pages are out of date.

I am trying to run the Hasty armv6el-vfp version (with is suitable for TI OMAP processors) on my n810, but i have not been able to even debootstrap succesfully, chrooting from maemo is possible, but i still can't run debootstrap --second-stage.
Qemu fails everything because of missing armv6el kernel. The internet is full of armv5el kernels, but i haven't been able to find any armv6el. Because i am totally newbie of compiling anything, can someone help me?

Maybe something like Guake where you have a keybind to show or hide the console would suffice your needs.

For two days, i have been trying to debootstrap on tablet.
I was thinking, why is this not working.

Why? -Because I always have had --foreign option.

This weekend, I managed to build the Hasty debootstrap in my Debian partition, using standard Debian debootstrap and the script copied from the Hasty version of debootstrap. It all went smoothly, everything installed, and now everything's there and ready to go.

I'm also having problems, however. "apt-get" from within my new Ubuntu chroot doesn't work.

I update my package lists and then try to "apt-get install midbrowser", but it always fails because it claims that the package has a dependency and it isn't going to be installed.. Why isn't it going to be installed? Well, I followed things down the chain (midbrowser -> xulrunner-1.9 -> libgtk2.0-0 -> libcups2), only to discover that "libcups2" has no install candidate... Yikes!

So I'll try mix-and-match; adding Debian sid armel repositories to fill in the gaps...

i used the same debootstrap deb and like you said all went smoothly.

I am trying to boot into ubuntu so i have to build some packages from deblet svn.

Are you sure it will accept debian armel repository? I remember i tried to add mojo repository in debian but apt-get complained about "packages-armel not found" or something...

EDIT: it will accept, since debian repos have arm architechture packages, but these are for armv3 or 4. Would be good for 770?

Bah. Managed to hose my Ubuntu partition. You were right, the Debian repositories will try to download arm packages (instead of armel), which will not work. I discovered this as it decided to "upgrade" my dpkg, which broke everything. Sigh.