I don't know why you did that prior to flashing... I didn't - and it wasn't instructed in the Wiki page. And I didn't do it when cloning either - but it's possible that they are included in the scripts that I used (I gave a link in my previous post).

Getting out of space issues.

so I have a 4 gig card, partitioned it a little different than the wiki said, but have done it the original 15000 way and pumping it up to 60000 on first partition, anyway. when I run the cloning script I get out of space issue so I think, I pretty much follow everything verbatim. any comments would be great..

tried the original
# sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0
/dev/mmcblk0p1:1,15000,6
/dev/mmcblk0p2:15001,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3:
/dev/mmcblk0p4:

then

# sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0
/dev/mmcblk0p1:1,60000,6
/dev/mmcblk0p2:60001,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3:
/dev/mmcblk0p4:

both got out of space issues.

this is my full rundown based on everyones input

* reflash
* reformat 4gig drive


become root

add this

Web address: http://eko.one.pl/maemo/

Distribution: mistral
Components: user


and this one


http://www.gronmayer.com/it/index.php

get become root / wget /

create partitions

# apt-get install e2fsprogs
# umount /media/mmc1
# umount /media/mmc2 (for N800 only!)


# sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0

(note unit says that memory card is available right at this time)

/dev/mmcblk0p1:1,15000,6
/dev/mmcblk0p2:15001,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3:
/dev/mmcblk0p4:

or 4gig
#sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0 -uM

/dev/mmcblk0p1: 0,3300,0C
/dev/mmcblk0p2: ,,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3:
/dev/mmcblk0p4:


format partitions
umount then
# mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1
# shutdown -r now

umount then
# mke2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2
# shutdown -r now


mount partitions

insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/mbcache.ko

insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/ext2.ko

mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/mmc2



download flasher

http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/initfs_flasher.tgz

or here
http://fanoush.webpark.cz/maemo/initfs_flasher.tgz

# cd /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/
# tar zxvf initfs_flasher.tgz
# cd initfs_flasher/
# ./initfs_flash


as user:

mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin
wget http://www.nmacleod.com/nokia/bin/nupgrade.sh
wget http://www.nmacleod.com/nokia/bin/tar
chmod +x nupgrade.sh tar

as root

sudo gainroot
cd /home/user/bin
./nupgrade.sh 0
./nupgrade.sh 1
./nupgrade.sh 2
./nupgrade.sh 3
./nupgrade.sh 4
reboot

When the device reboots, choose option #3 "MMC card, partition 2, ext2" to boot from the freshly cloned OS

I didn't do it either. I setup my partitions using Slackware 12.0 - Linux. I used fdisk, sfdisk, mount, umount, and mkdosfs. It was alot easier then doing them on the Tablet IMHO.

yeah I get a no space left on device error about 1/4 way through ./nupgrade.sh 3

so must be some formatting errors I think on the mmc. Just gonna give up for awhile til I get my linux junkie to come by. just now working out.. have tried process like 5 times now..

well...I got thru the install process for KDE + SUP file. Rebooted. When I click on the KDE icon in the "extras" menu the screen flashes briefly, then goes dark for about 30 seconds. After that the normal desktop returns.

Looks like something is crashing KDE as it loads.

I have an n800/2008OS w/ 2GB internal MMC (1.5 GB on the ext2 partition and .4 GB on the Linux_83 partition), and a 4GB external SD card.

One thing that I don't understand - my "Device Memory" in the File Manager is showing 1.82 GB total size and 1.82 GB in use, while the Internal Memory Card is showing a total size of 1.37 GB with 1.37 GB available. Since both are on the same 2 GB SD card, I don't understand why the combined " total size" is >2 GB.

I'm going to try to delete all unneeded applications and files to free up more space on the boot partition to see if that helps.

Any suggestions?

The full partition was the problem.

After a few hours of sleep I deleted the tarballs and uninstalled a couple of large applicaitons. I was able to free up 264 MB of the partition. Once I did that, KDE started up beautifully.

I am amazed! Thank you PenguinBait, PinCushionQueen and others for the detailed posts here and elsewhere that guided this newbie through.

Now to explore and play....

Thank you again PenguinBait - I am blown away!!!

If anyone is interested, I combined information from multiple sources and notes from my installation expereince into this document formatted for easy IT viewing:

Run the KDE Desktop on a Nokia N800

Starting from essentially an "out-of-the-box" N800, these instructions describe how to :

1. Partition the internal SD card
2. Enable system boot from internal SD card (dual-booting)
3. Install KDE on internal SD boot partition

Note: This should also work on a Nokia N810

I thought other newbies might find this helpful. Plus, I know I'll be doing it again and having all the steps in one place will save me time.

Peace!

Any one have a idea why when I run ./targnu cf - -C /floppy . | ./targnu xvf - -C /opt it comes back and says "Cannot chdir: No such file or Directory ./targnu: Error is not recoverable: extiing now" I have followed the list in creating everything just when I get to this I get this error. How can I locate the right directory? I have only had my N800 for a weeking and half. Thanks.


*I got it to work, what happen is that I left the "o" in opt so now it worked. Thanks everyone.

When booting up which one should I choose;
1. MMC Card
2. MMC card, partition 2, ext2

Pronuke I have a questioned. I followed your instructions that you posted on your website and was wondering you put
"# mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/KDE358.tar.bz2 /KDE358.tar/bz2
# mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/KDE358.tar.bz2 /KDE358.tar/bz2" twice is this correct? or is one suppose to be the SUP one? Thanks for your time. I almost got this done just need to install KDE.


I tried # mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/KDE358.tar.bz2 /KDE358.tar/bz2 and I get mv: connot rename '/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/KDE358.tar.bz2': No such file or directory. What am I doing wrong anyone.