Qole,

What if I keep the first partition a 128 MB SWAP partition? Shouldn't that prevent Maemo from trying to mount it?

I don't know... Best practice is to have a mountable FAT partition so that Maemo has something to mount.

Ok. I have bunzip2'ed the basic-debian-chroot-fs.tar.bz2 so it is a tar. I am unable to tar -xvfp *.tar it to extract the tar with the same permissions. How do I go about doing this? Thanks for answering such a basic question.

johndoe: Make sure you are extracting from the tar as root. That is essential.

I am extracting as root, but the tar -pxvf command doesn't seem to extract (or any combination). Would you recommend extracting on another computer and moving? Or is their an easier command to extract?

johndoe: I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but I'm pretty sure you're doing something wrong. Here are the steps again:

1: partition / format your card with at least a small FAT partition and a big ext2 partition. (you can have a swap partition too, and more than one ext2 partition)
2: mount the big ext2 partition on /debian
(e.g.: qmount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /debian )
3: extract the rootfs into the partition mounted on /debian
( cd /debian ; tar xvf /media/mmc1/big-rootfs.tar )
4: unmount the partition
( qumount /debian )
5: run the "debian" command to remount the partition and chroot into it.

Hi! Can you help me? Earlier in EasyDebian was ability to move large windows by pressing "Menu" hardware key(N810), but it vanishes from some moment. How to enable it again?

shanti: I just checked, you are right, somehow that configuration got lost in the latest version! See, this is what beta-testing is all about. Next version will have this again.

For now, here's how to get it working again.

Edit this file: /home/user/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml

Find the section:

<!-- Keybindings for windows -->

Add the lines:

<keybind key="F4">
<action name="Move"/>
</keybind>

hi qole!! I'm successfully using from a while your easydebian package; it's very useful and bring maemo4 to a complete desktop experience!

now, i saw that your package in fremantle, have a method to uniform easydeb apps with the maemo theme; how did you do that?
i use the frediablo theme with the menu tweak and it's very similar to maemo5 how can i imp;lement the debian theme like in maemo5???

thx a lot!!!

I am currently using the MurrinaNightOrange theme in LXDE. It looks very Fremantle-like