Debian on the X10

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anantshri

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speculatrix said:
thanks, I will take a look.

I have tried other people's scripts, and modified them to add additional debugging, and no joy.

For the moment I simply created a minimal image in a tar ball and copied it over to /data/local/linux and chroot'd into that, and it works.
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that's the actually concept buddy the difference is that we try to keep a .img file which is nothing but a ext2 partition on file and use loopmounting for it to be available @ /data/local/linux or what ever name you may have.

the only difference i have is i did some simple optimization on code and segregated code in 3 files start stop and cmd so as to allow person to independently work on chroot image without caring about autoclosing of terminal window.
 
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OK. People in #mageia told me that there's no way that it could work, but I'll try. Any video yet that proves it working?

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Umeaboy said:
OK. People in #mageia told me that there's no way that it could work, but I'll try. Any video yet that proves it working?

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hold on buddy.

there are very few people here who are interested in pulling Linux on Xperia so progress will be slow, besides we all have our daily job+life too.

also this is the first time i heard about mageia,

I don't think anyone has worked towards rpm based distro's....
If i get time over this weekend i might give it a try.

however just look at my ubuntu + backtrack threads they all describe how i will be working towards its (there is no vodoo magic in here. all is already open.)
 
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anantshri said:
hold on buddy.

there are very few people here who are interested in pulling Linux on Xperia so progress will be slow, besides we all have our daily job+life too.

also this is the first time i heard about mageia,

I don't think anyone has worked towards rpm based distro's....
If i get time over this weekend i might give it a try.

however just look at my ubuntu + backtrack threads they all describe how i will be working towards its (there is no vodoo magic in here. all is already open.)
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wow! redhat based distro would be nice... may be not that useful... may be as proof-of-concept?
 
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    samaldis
    [MESSAGE TO MODS, I could not include urls so have added spaces to pass spam filter.. please change?]
    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

    (had to include spaces in the url to pass spam filter, could a mod please change this?)

    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 :D
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