Hiya Addison,

Try doing this, and see if it fixes your missing libuuid.so.1 problem:

I think using the Ubuntu Live CD would be a good idea. You can use Linux on your desktop to do all of these things, instead of trying to do them on your tablet.

Okay qole.

Can you help me just a titch on this?



I'm getting permission denied.

What's the correct way to extract your rootfs to the memory card through ubuntu?

Thanks buddy!

Well, I stopped by over at #ubuntu on Freenode last night to ask for some help on this.

That was a mistake.

The place was packed butts to elbows in there and I could barely get in a word without it immediately scrolling off the screen.

I tried downloading your rootfs file directly to the ext2 partition but Mozilla refuses.

Magic Partition won't recognize the memory card since I don't have some confusing executable file on it.

Looks like I'm going to go nerd hunting in real life and try to snag me a geek brain dork to abuse for a day.

I feel like such a toolie over this whole thing it's ridiculous

Addison: the instructions I gave above are very similar to Ubuntu LiveCD instructions. You should not have problems gaining root with "sudo", but if you need a root password, enter "sudo passwd root" and enter a password.

Fire up Ubuntu LiveCD
Plug in SD card / reader
open a terminal
Look for your SD card in that list. There will be two partitions. Under "Mounted on," it should start with "/media" ... For the purposes of these instructions, let's just say that the FAT32 partition is mounted on /media/disk-1 and the ext2 partition is mounted on /media/disk-2.

First thing to do is reformat your ext2 partition. So look for the line that has /media/disk-2 under "Mounted on" and look at what the device is called in the "Filesystem" column. Let's say it is "/dev/sdb2" for these instructions.

For the purposes of these instructions, lets say you've put the debian-m5-v3b-rootfs.tar.bz2 file on the FAT32 partition of your SD card.

That should dump everything to the card.

Now you can pull out the card and try it in your tablet.

Thanks a bunch qole!

I'll be hitting this hard later tonight.

One other thing, and I'm hoping you might know something on this, my tablet keeps acting like an hysterical old maid in constant menopause. *lol*

Every clean memory card I put into MMC1, the tablet states that it's corrupted. This has been going on for a couple of weeks now.

I'll pull the card out and look at it under Windows XP and it's working just fine.

I'll reformat the whole card, put nothing on it, and still the tablet goes nuts for no reason that I can tell.

I'll press okay for the tablet to try and repair the memory card but it only chucks out a message saying that it's unable to do so.

The only way it seems to resolve the issue is.
root
shutdown -r now

That works for awhile then the whole thing starts over again.

I don't think I'm running anything off of the memory card except for whatever it's doing in the tmp folder by default.

Also, I'm getting splash marks for easy-chroot 0.2.3-1diablo1
and
easy-deb-chroot 0.9.35-2diablo1
from the app manager.

Easy chroot complains about not having easy-deb-chroot
and
Easy-deb-chroot complains about not having wget and easy-deb-chroot (0.9.35-2diablo1)


Oh, and even reformatting the whole memory card to fat32 still produces the same crap errors.

I'm thinking about reflashing later tonight and starting all over again unless you have a brain idea on what's going on here.

Thanks chief!

Addison, I'm very worried that your tablet may be broken. Seriously.

Hi qole!

Okay, I think I may have figured out all of the weirdness that's been going on for me.

I have an external hard drive that is hooked up to the USB port on the front of my computer.

I'm constantly unplugging that and then using the USB port for the tablet then plugging back in the hard drive once again.

For some reason the computer keeps changing drive letters on me and I think that could be causing the trouble here.

I won't get a chance until this weekend but I'm feeling a little confident for once and can't wait to try this again.

Looks like I now understand why everything is funk on my end.

I've got the "recycler virus" mounted on all of my memory cards and external hard drive as well.

Ugh.

Stupid thing is, I most likely picked it up when googling how to partition and mount my memory card since I barely go anywhere online.

Why does there have to be so much nerd rage on the internet? *lol*

This is going too sound really sad, but honestly, could someone just VNC into my computer and do this themself?

You all have honest faces.

I've read your post a dozen times qole, I'm just not seeing the same messages on my computer for some reason.

Apparently my brain is leaking and I'm incapable of following even the simplest of instructions. *lol*

Addison, what I don't understand is your determination to do this. Why not just give up with the whole partition thing and use the image file instead? The speed improvement with a partition isn't that big of a deal, considering the pain and bloodshed you've been through here.

Just put one big FAT partition on your card, drop the image file on there, and you're good to go.

The whole point of this project is that it is supposed to be Easy Debian. If it ain't easy, then it ain't worth it.