hi i am struggling to get Easy Debian working on a n800 and a n810, on the n810 i have all the bits in the etxtras and have downloaded the file from the debian image installer. When i try to open the Synaptic package manager or the debian chroot i gat the following message:

ERROR

You have mo debian.img.ext2 file on your memory cards.

please use the Debian image installer in Extras.

########but i have - it says the file is fully recived?

can you suggest what i should do.

do i need to extract the doenloaded file? if so how do i do that?

thanks

ddw

what is the output of:

~ $ ls -l /media/mmc1
drwxrwxrwx 4 user root 16384 May 22 2007 Data
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 16384 Nov 3 2007 Documents
drwxrwxrwx 21 user root 32768 Aug 7 11:10 Images
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 16384 Apr 2 2006 Others
drwxrwxrwx 10 user root 16384 Jun 1 2007 Private
drwxrwxrwx 4 user root 16384 Jun 23 2007 Sounds
drwxrwxrwx 14 user root 16384 May 23 2007 Videos
drwxrwxrwx 3 user root 16384 Jun 23 2007 muveedrwxrwxrwx 5 user root 16384 Sep 12 2007 resource
drwxrwxrwx 4 user root 16384 Sep 12 2007 sys
drwxrwxrwx 5 user root 16384 May 22 2007 system
drwxrwxrwx 3 user root 16384 Aug 7 17:55 tuxpaint
~ $ ls -l /media/mmc2
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 8311000 Aug 8 2008 Ppppdf (1).pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 32567 Aug 8 2008 Ppppdf.pdf
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 2048 Aug 7 11:11 Video-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 349555153 Aug 7 14:47 debian-chroot-img-v2.tar.bz2
drwxrwxrwx 4 user root 2048 Aug 7 11:04 map
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try this:

I thought the "Download Debian Image" or whatever in the Easy Debian package did it for you but it doesn't appear there is a ".img" file to be mounted anywhere.

~ $ cd /media/mmc2
/media/mmc2 $ tar -jxvf debian-chroot-img-v2.tar.bz2
tar: bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
/media/mmc2 $ ls
Ppppdf (1).pdf test.wav
Ppppdf.pdf tmp
Video videocenter
debian-chroot-img-v2.tar.bz2 wget-log
map
/media/mmc2 $


hmmm maybe i should just delet the debian-chroot-img-v2.tar.bz2 file and download again. i'm having different problems trying to get it working on a n800 but at least then has the .img file?

You need to install bunzip2 .. Im not sure what the maemo package for it is or where it's at... search in the package manager.. you are looking for either bzip2, bunzip2, bzip, etc...

Install that and see if that command works.

Where did the wget-log come from?

thanks i'll try it tomorrrow re the wget-log i don't know

~ $ cd /media/mmc2
/media/mmc2 $ tar -jxvf debian-chroot-img-v2.tar.bz2
debian.img.ext2

bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing.
Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/media/mmc2 $


i will delet it and re download it, i used a phone/modem maybe that was the problem? some how

I don't know exactly what your "phone/modem" setup is, but different connections can cause (or more frequently cause) bad downloads, so if you have more success downloading things with some other connection, and it's not to hard to get, I'd use it. (e.g., it's probably worth a cup of coffee, if you can only get WiFi at the local coffee shop.)

as a rule i don't use wifi, but i'll break the rule just this once, the original downloads took over 3 hours.