HTC Dream Developer Edition / T-Mobile G1

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scholbert wrote:
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> joakim wrote:
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>> The selling point for me when buying the G1 is that I read that its
>> possible to boot debian on it, just like the Freerunner.
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> Unfortunately that's not quite true, at present.
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> What people have done is to loop mount a canned debian filesystem and
> chroot to it, allowing you to use most of the debian userspace.
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> At least one guy took it further and used unionfs to achieve a sort-of
> merged debian and android filesystem. As yet I'm unaware of debian
> actually being able to install/boot on G1. I looked into this as I was
> interested in a merged debian/android on FR, using android UI but with
> debian underneath. No joy yet.
> 


How bizarre, if you forget to login it posts as scholbert....
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