Debian for Nandroid

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Original thread (Thanks mercianary):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744236

Instructions

Here is a direct link to zipped .img file with deboot file both to be placed onto on root of SD card

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7MON3O0J

Ingredients
debian.img + deboot (to be placed on the root of your SD card)
Better Terminal Emulator (or other terminal emulator) + AndroidVNC (or other VNC client) from the market

To automate one click startup process via Better Terminal Emulator:
Preferences>Initial command:

export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH:.
su
sh /sdcard/deboot

Or type this for each new session in any terminal emulator:

su
sh /sdcard/deboot

You should get a blank screen showing "localhost:/#" after a couple of seconds.

Then leave Terminal running in background (don't let it close via task killer or otherwise), hold down the hardware menu or home button to switch programs for a bit and connected in via VNC (AndroidVNC)...
address: localhost port: 5901 and password: password ... then hit connect (login details will be saved for next time)...
its working fine software keyboard etc and at good speed. In menu options select 24bit colour, local mouse, 1:1 scaling and Touchpad only to make navigating menus much easier.

Normal phone and Android functions should be fine.

Short press hardware menu key to get mouse options etc and longpress to bring up software keyboard (using Android VNC).

This debian image cannot be shut down unless the phone is rebooted.

I am using the Hyperdroid Rom off NAND, overclocked at 1.2ghz and a 16GB class 6 microsd (although it should be independent to all this... worth mentioning)

Edit 1. This is a bare image with LXDE on top but the repository for Debian is large and you can use apt-get install openoffice.org, apt-get install abiword etc to grab whatever you want to fill the 1.5GB image... unlike Ubuntu all the applications are free.

Edit 2. Its possible to have debian and ubuntu on your SDcard.

2g SDcard. Can running ?

This is too small I think, you should have at least a 4GB card!

This will sound stupid but is it possible to run this if you have sdcard android build and not nand?
Ty for reply.

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Hmmmmmm can any body tell me exactly WHAT IS THIS?!?
sorry for stupid Q

Originally Posted by farhang_za

Hmmmmmm can any body tell me exactly WHAT IS THIS?!?
sorry for stupid Q

Linux running as some sort of virtual machine on android by using vnc(rdp) software.



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Originally Posted by maneken25

This will sound stupid but is it possible to run this if you have sdcard android build and not nand?
Ty for reply.

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No. But look out for this.

Hmmmmmm can any body tell me exactly WHAT IS THIS?!?

Its a versatile linux OS of desktop quality, affectionately known as the mother of all linux operating systems, it is the 4th most popular linux variant as compliled by distrowatch as of 2010 and third in terms of downloads in early 2011. Ubuntu was number 1.

Here are some positive traits of Debian.

How to set into Chinese

So, ok, Ive got this working,.. where does the image come from exactly? how was it built and can any linux variant be used?

Originally Posted by imperiallight

Original thread (Thanks mercianary):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744236

Edit 1. This is a bare image with LXDE on top but the repository for Debian is large and you can use apt-get install openoffice.org, apt-get install abiword etc to grab whatever you want to fill the 1.5GB image... unlike Ubuntu all the applications are free.

Nice, will have to check it out. Used to use debian on my IBM X31 'cos Ubuntu was just little too resource hungry until my PB butterfly arrived Just looked into the 'paid apps' for Ubuntu. OMG!!! Are they having a laugh? Who is seriously gonna pay for commercial codecs when you can just download the 'bad' and 'ugly' packs from the repos!!! Off topic I know, but, seriously, what???