community Digest, Vol 248, Issue 1

Henrik Pihl ahvenas at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 18:22:53 CEST 2011


> ---------- Edastatud kiri ----------
> From: Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyrinki at gmail.com>
> To: "e.waelde" <ew.ng7125 at nassur.net>
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:12:31 +0300
> Subject: Re: openmoko neo --- Debian install from scratch now works (was: fails)
> 2011/7/20 e.waelde <ew.ng7125 at nassur.net>:
>> as of yesterday evening, installing a neo from scratch fails.
>
> I compiled again the 2.6.34 kernel yesterday evening, and uploaded it
> and got it finally properly into pkg-fso repository where as the
> working kernel used to linger in the incoming directory because of a
> few reprepro problems. I also updated install.sh to use that by
> default and tested that an install.sh run now works properly and the
> device boots!
>
> Try these to get started with Debian minimal installation at the moment:
>
> 1. Boot to other distribution that is on NAND, like QtMoko or SHR
> 2. wget -O install.sh http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/freerunner/install.sh
> 3. QI=true SINGLE_PART=true ./install.sh all
> 4. Reboot
> 5. Login via USB/ssh (default root password "changeme")
> 6. Get a bit more software manually: apt-get install foxtrotgps gpsd
> navit midori wicd lxterminal xorg zhone/experimental
> python-ecore/experimental python-edje/experimental
> python-evas/experimental zhone-illume-glue/experimental
>
> Debian still has those E17 Python bindings only in experimental, which
> is why a working Zhone is also now only in experimental. Note that
> there is a problem with the old FSO1 stack reported by Dmitry
> Chistikov in July. A new FSO2 stack is being uploaded to Debian now
> finally soon by the great work of Rico Rommel. After that we need
> people to work on updating eg. the Zhone2, SHR UI sofware and other
> FSO2 compliant stuff into Debian, together with needed E17 stuff.
>
> (more information at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner , or
> IRC/Freenode #openmoko-debian)
>
> -Timo

Hello,
  Currently #openmoko-debian doesn't have a clue about whereabouts of
newer GTA01 kernels - the install.sh fails due to that (2.6.24). Are
those home-made or is someone sharing them as well? :) My googling
doesn't reveal anything useful.

Henrik



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