On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:36:27PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2007 17:55:56 +0200, Detlef Schmicker wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > some months ago I posted on maemo (the platform used for the Nokia N800) > > mailinglist about my attemps to run DEBIAN-ARM on this platform. > > I'd certainly be interested in informatin about getting armel on my > m800. There seems to be progress in compiling a kernel and setting p a > reasonable initial file system, but it's not clear what I have to do to > enable the n800 to actually boot from it. > > I think I'm looking for instructions that are more end-user-friendly than > the ones in
> > http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2007-February/008480.html There is a wealth of information internet tablet talk: http://www.internettablettalk.com/wiki/index.php?title=Debian http://www.internettablettalk.com/wiki/index.php?title=Running_Debian_chroot Including a dedicated forum for running debian on tablets: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=38 > I really don't know how to make my n800 boot differently, nor how to get > it back the way it was if things go horribly wrong. But having Debian > instead of maemo will, I suspect, make life easier -- at least finding > packages to install and using gcc and the like. What you need is a hack called "bootmenu", which allows you to select boottime if you want to boot from internal flash of mmc/SD card. http://wiki.maemo.org/Booting_from_a_flash_card -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
