Can anyone please assist me?
Sorry a simpleton when it comes to this sort of stuff and not a linux user. I have downloaded: debian-m5-v3b-rootfs.tar.bz2
I have extracted it and have on my n900 under /MyDocs.
I don't know how to install it on my MicroSD card, partition 3 (mmcblk1p3). Could someone please help me?

on a linux pc : plug your n900 in via usb , select mass storage mode ,using gparted create your partition , mount the volume , using file-roller extract the .tar.bz2 onto your sdcard partition 3 .
you can do the following on the phone , but it will take some time...
open x-terminal and do the following

apt-get install bzip2
cd /home/user/MyDocs/
bzip2 -d debian-m5-v3b-rootfs.tar.bz2

assuming , you have already created and formatted partition 3 on your sdcard , for use by easydebian

cd /
mkdir /easydebian
mount /dev/mmcblk1p3 /easydebian
cd /easydebian
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v3b-rootfs.tar

i hope this is what you needed..

Thanks mate, exactly what I needed, last section as had it all partitioned, extracted and in MyDocs ready.
Cheers

guys,
downloaded, extracted and fully installed on the partiton of the microsd card. So i have rebooted and realise i don't have any of the usual icons on the desktop to load it. does this mean it hasn't installed correctly or need to do something else to load it?

Finaly it works without sue but it's longer than with terminal command debbie gramps.

Hi guys

discovered easy debian today and boy is it a sweet discovery

first of all thx qole for all you work..its truly remarkable

I have 2 questions:

so i have successfully created a nice launcher and i can launch keepassx perfectly (and very fast!!) only problem i cant get the keyboad to work no matter what. i followed all the wiki tricks (power button, the Fix LXDE keyboard" application icon etc..nothing works. since i cant put a pass word i cant use keepassx..is there any solution to that?

also..how does one run a cli app..i tried creating a launcher as i did for keepass x for the cli prog task. i used "debbie task shell" for example in the exec section . the launcher appears but nothing happens when i press it..what am i missing?

thx again

Zeltak

guys,
With the install. Do we have any files on the internal directory not required that we can erase to free space. I noticed a folder /home/user/img-install for example, what about the unextracted image, is it still floating around somewhere?

How can I make Easy Debian image larger? I decided to upgrade to Squeeze completely, there were some pulseaudio issues, which I eventually had to remove. Everything was going well, then the message about the lack of space. Can it be largened?

Now that Debian/Squeeze is frozen and it is starting to morph into the next debian/stable, is there any chance of building a new image with squeeze?

how I wish one of the smart folks here would make an easy fedora. It took me 2 days to get chroot fedora and rpm and yum seem broken plus when I umount it a df shows tons of errors (so I reboot the phone).