Since I'm using Easy Debian so regularly now, I'm wondering whether I should get me a good microSD card and put the image there in a bona fide (and also larger) ext2 or ext3 partition. I now have a couple of questions that may be of more general interest, and perhaps should be part of the FAQ in the wiki:

1. Can I expect that having the image on a separate partition on a good memory card improves speed or will it always be slower than having the image in the internal memory?

2. If the answer to 1) is yes, should I produce ext2 or ext3 partitions?

3. Does the N900 expect the memory card to have at least one FAT partition?

4. Finally, how would I fill in the 2GB images of qole into a larger partition on the external memory card?

rebhana: I have a microSD with an ext2 partition, and I do my development on it.

On the N800/N810, the SD partitions are much faster than image files.

But on the N900, I can't really tell the difference between image files and partitions, except maybe with a stopwatch. Even the dm-loop package doesn't seem to make any difference.

I like the "disposable" nature of image files, and the way I can keep several images side-by-side on the N900's internal 32GB.

If you do make a partition, leave a small token FAT partition. Ext2 or ext3 doesn't really matter, that I can tell. Make sure you indicate ext3 in your .chroot file if you use it.

There are good instructions for copying the filesystem from an image file to a partition. Basically, you mount the image and partition, then use a tar command to copy the files between the two. I'll see if I can find the instructions around here and link to them.

I have reinstalled easy debian m5 v3b but the sound isn't working.
I believe I read in a previous post that the pulse audio was set back to .9.1 but the version on this install is .9.21 same as v2. Also some of the things I've read about m5 v3b such as missing taskbar don't seem to be happening. Basically it looks just like v2 with no sound. The installed image is m5 v3b, the v2 image has been removed. The only thing I can think of is that I need to edit a config file, but which one? Thanks in advance for any pointers.

So far I have not tried out sound much in Easy Debian - I'm using it for other things - but I noticed that youtube videos in iceweasel (which hardly run anyway) do not produce sound in v3b, but they also didn't in v2. In v3b, I see that there is a music player, and even one song on it (Lament for Lost Dreams), but that doesn't play either for me.

I've managed to install encfs under Easy Debian, a user-space encrypted file system (http://www.arg0.net/encfs), which I thought would be an interesting enhancement of my zim installation. To my amazement, it was not difficult at all and everything needed was available. Here are the few "Easy" steps needed:

Encfs requires the fuse kernel module, which is indeed available in the Maemo system, although usually not yet loaded. Because there is no group "fuse" under Maemo, I've changed the group ownership of /dev/fuse to users, and have all that automated by creating a file $CHROOT/var/run/onfirstchroot-ext.rc with the content
This file needs to be executable, so also do:
The actual installation of encfs is then just
After that user (and not only root) can create and use encrypted file systems in Easy Debian

Hi Qole,

I know this is little bit off-topic but I just wanteed to say Thanks for this piece of software. You may remember from older threads that I've been using this on my N800 and now N900. If you're ever in Mannheim - Germany first beer is on me :-D



Regards,

Glasswalker

I found this review of easy debian on net:
http://openattitude.com/2010/03/19/e...-for-the-n900/

hi guys,
a few questions, is it possible to create new desktop folders if so how?
and why when i try to delete anything do i get permission denied all the time? for example i wanted to change the 64x64 icon that comes with the currency converter app with my own .png file but it wont let me delete the original or replace it, or even let me place anything else in the folder?
any help would be appreciated.

FYI: lzma is now in extras

...and with that, so is the new version of Easy Debian!

I'm hoping that this new version will reduce the daily bandwidth pummeling that qole.org is getting. I just checked, the daily download usage is over 79GB! That number suggests that the v2 image for the Extras version of Easy Debian is being downloaded more than 235 times a day. The new v3b image is 48MB smaller than the v2 image, and that will add up...