Debian on the X10

samaldis · Jun 30, 2010

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Well now we finally have root on our shiny devices I decided to crack open
the beers and get to work getting debian running on the X10..
the process is actually pretty straight-forward.
(as it turns out the x10's kernel already has support for most things needed
such as the ext2 filesystem)

-- step 1--
firstly we need to create a debian image for the phone, there are a few already out there but you can use the following to create your own

Code:

apt-get install debootstrap
dd if=/dev/zero of=debian.img seek=749999999 bs=1 count=1
mke2fs -F debian.img
mkdir debian
mount -o loop debian.img debian
debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign lenny debian [ht]tp:[//]ftp. de. debian. org/debian
umount debian

how ever if you would prefer to use a ready built one (recomended for less techies

) you can get one from: rapidshare. com/files/161776007/debian-armel-750.img.bz2

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now copy this too the root of your sdcard and make sure its called debian.img

-- step 2 --

I have created a script to do most of the other work for you:

Code:

alias b=busybox
export PATH=/data/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:$PATH
b mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0
b mount -o loop,noatime /sdcard/debian.img /data/local/mnt
echo 'nameserver 4.2.2.2' >data/local/mnt/etc/resolv.conf
b chroot /data/local/mnt
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
mount -t proc proc /proc
mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
rm -f /etc/mtab
ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

put this in your sdcard to.

-- step 3 --

Finally in any terminal emulator cd to the location of the startdeb.sh file
and do the following:

Code:

chmod  777 ./startdeb.sh
./startdeb.sh

!! and your done !!
you should now be within the debian system.. i suggest running

Code:

apt-get update

and installing what ever apps you want
(my first choices were gcc, python and tightvncserver)

[ EXTRA ]
now your on debian you can use

Code:

apt-get install tightvncserver

to get the xwindow system and the vnc server
now set both your HOME and USER variables

Code:

export HOME=/root
export USER=root

(or what ever user you choose)
and run

Code:

tightvncserver

(your also gonna have to download lxde and do a few other bits of setup
have a look around for X11 "Ported" to android post on these forums)
you could also change the config so that the desktop is displayed
at the right size for the screen

just use a vnc client from the market to connect to your GUI

mootmaina · Jun 30, 2010

Kool. I had ubuntu running on my htc touch pro once but wasnt really worth having apart from the cool factor. This looks promising.............. ill wait a while till I play around, the rooting factor is still new and I dont see the major gain to root yet.

ddewbofh · Jun 30, 2010

Way awesome, thanks for the guide.

j4mm3r · Jun 30, 2010

Nice work, will give this a try after I get the R2B rooted on my phone.

Next step for me would be to get the arm cross compilation toolchain and start porting goodies for the android....

robbyf66 · Jun 30, 2010

wow this looks sooooo awesome!! any screen shots? don't make me google

aget1 · Jun 30, 2010

when i try mounting debian.img using ur cmd i got following error

Code:

Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

seems my mount requires -t parameters, so i try again, but still having error

Code:

mount -o loop,noatime -t ext2 /sdcard/debian.img /data/local/mnt
ioctl LOOP_SET_FD failed: Device or resource busy

please help thanks!

ddewbofh · Jun 30, 2010

aget1 said:
when i try mounting debian.img using ur cmd i got following error

Code:

Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

seems my mount requires -t parameters, so i try again, but still having error

Code:

mount -o loop,noatime -t ext2 /sdcard/debian.img /data/local/mnt ioctl LOOP_SET_FD failed: Device or resource busy

please help thanks!

Are you running the script as root? If you not you might wanna try that.

Keegan_P · Jun 30, 2010

This may sound kind of noobish, but would this be a dual-boot (I.e. running both android and debian on different boots of the phone, or would this be debian, until you reset the phone to be android again.

Sent from my X10a using XDA App

aget1 · Jun 30, 2010

ddewbofh said:
Are you running the script as root? If you not you might wanna try that.

Still the same

Code:

whoami
whoami: unknown uid 0

mount -o loop,noatime -t ext2 /sdcard/debian.img /data/local/mnt
ioctl LOOP_SET_FD failed: Device or resource busy

ddewbofh · Jun 30, 2010

aget1 said:
Still the same

Code:

whoami whoami: unknown uid 0 mount -o loop,noatime -t ext2 /sdcard/debian.img /data/local/mnt ioctl LOOP_SET_FD failed: Device or resource busy

And I assume you're either running the script or doing those commands manually? Including the mknod part?

aget1 · Jun 30, 2010

ddewbofh said:
And I assume you're either running the script or doing those commands manually? Including the mknod part?

i run the script and found no luck, so i type in both adb and console, of coz mknod is done, either mkdir /data/local/mnt is done or not gives the same result, tried also mounting without loop,noatime and gives

Code:

mount: Block device required

would it be rooting problem or mount problem?

also tried losetup -d /dev/loop0, no luck

Code:

losetup: /dev/loop0: Device or resource busy

aget1 · Jun 30, 2010

Keegan_P said:
This may sound kind of noobish, but would this be a dual-boot (I.e. running both android and debian on different boots of the phone, or would this be debian, until you reset the phone to be android again.

Sent from my X10a using XDA App

i see this to be a remounting of debian system on your phone, no modification on your phone so no, no dual boot

MrPappy86 · Jun 30, 2010

anybody can post a video tutorial please?
and the debian and android works together or just debian?

thx

Keegan_P · Jun 30, 2010

A video tutorial would be amazing.

Sent from my X10a using XDA App

samaldis · Jun 30, 2010

I will upload a video tutorial asap but at the moment I am having to use a 3G dongle for my internet (just moved out, am poor.. all donations to team@net-aware.co.uk on paypal ;-)) also this runs along side (or on top of) android so you'll still be able to get your texts and calls.. finally there are already a lot of debian apps compiled for ARM systems so have a look to see if the app you want is on apt (make sure you've run apt-get update first) please pm me if you have any problems

Thanks,
Sam Aldis

alx5962 · Jul 1, 2010

I tried to run it on the latest firmware and it seems loop device kernel module is not available in it.

Also the script is not fully functional :
you need to 'mkdir /data/local/mnt/'
also it's '/data/local' instead of 'data/local'

I haven't spend much time on this, so it's not working for now on my phone.
So help is welcome

ddewbofh · Jul 1, 2010

Quick question:

Has anyone at all gotten this to work?

zephyrix · Jul 1, 2010

nope. I doubt it.

alx5962 · Jul 1, 2010

mod edit:..

aget1 · Jul 2, 2010

sorry for stupid me, i don't know i can create loop device more than loop 0
i create loop0,loop1,loop2,loop7 and try mounting again, it success this time
so here is my script:

Code:

#!/system/bin/bash
export PATH=/data/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:$PATH
if [ ! -d /data/local/mnt ]
  then
	mkdir /data/local/mnt
fi

if [ ! -b /dev/loop2 ]
  then
  	mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0
	mknod /dev/loop1 b 7 0
	mknod /dev/loop2 b 7 0
	mknod /dev/loop7 b 7 0
fi

if [ ! -d /data/local/mnt/bin ]
  then
	mount -o loop,noatime /sdcard/debian.img /data/local/mnt
fi
echo "nameserver 4.2.2.2" >data/local/mnt/etc/resolv.conf
chroot /data/local/mnt
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
mount -t proc proc /proc
mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
rm -f /etc/mtab
ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

Edited:
I just brick my device after some more work, every command even ls do no output, reboot machine freezes at sony ericsson logo, now i am re rooting the device......

Edited 2:
Should be not the problem of debian, seems working fine.

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