[GUIDE] Chrooting into a Debian environment works fine

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http://modmymobile.com/forums/403-mo...root-cliq.html

These basic instructions work, although I havent done anything beyond mounting /system rw, mounting debian partition, and chrooting into it.

I had to change the remount command to use /dev/mmcblk0p25, and to mount /dev/vold/179:34 instead of 179:2 for the debian environment.

No big surprise that it works, this seems to be pretty easy to do on just about any rooted android device.

*edit*

OK, it looks great. Got dropbear running, ssh'd in with connectbot, everything is just peachy.

Started a VNC server, and can connect to the local debian chroot and run Iceweasel (although its somewhat slow.)

Pretty sweet.

*/edit*

Nnnnyem

I'm not exactly certain what that post meant, but I'll clarify what "debian chroot" means on an Android device.

Android, being a Linux-based device that runs a reasonably standard Linux kernel, is capable of executing native ARM binaries from other linux distributions like Debian or Ubuntu.

However, the problem (well, one of many) is that typically NONE of the necessary libraries are installed with the Android OS.

The chroot solves that problem (and others), and allows the android phone to run native ARM Debian apps directly on the phone, like an SSH server, VNC server, nmap, etc. etc.

Basically it's a novelty for most users, but I do use it quite a bit.

Originally Posted by keenerb

http://modmymobile.com/forums/403-mo...root-cliq.html

These basic instructions work, although I havent done anything beyond mounting /system rw, mounting debian partition, and chrooting into it.

I had to change the remount command to use /dev/mmcblk0p25, and to mount /dev/vold/179:34 instead of 179:2 for the debian environment.

No big surprise that it works, this seems to be pretty easy to do on just about any rooted android device.

*edit*

OK, it looks great. Got dropbear running, ssh'd in with connectbot, everything is just peachy.

Started a VNC server, and can connect to the local debian chroot and run Iceweasel (although its somewhat slow.)

Pretty sweet.

*/edit*

Would you be able to right up a step by step for some reason this is not working for me . im getting errors when i run the ubuntu setup , i tried following the nexus one setup and i also tried a few others , so was wondering what the exact steps you did where also im running the rom off my sdcard the modded thmed one from the dev forum .

Has anyone attempted to run airsnort or equivilant on deb chroot? (Would the installed wifi driver be sufficient or compat?- wonder if the radio can be permisquious)

Cool beanz

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Originally Posted by khaosxiii

Has anyone attempted to run airsnort or equivilant on deb chroot? (Would the installed wifi driver be sufficient or compat?- wonder if the radio can be permisquious)

Cool beanz

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It looks like it can be put into promiscuous mode.

localhost:/home/xxx# iwconfig eth0 mode monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; Invalid argument.

localhost:/home/xxx# iwconfig rmnet0 mode monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device rmnet0 ; Operation not supported.

localhost:/home/xxx# ifconfig eth0 promisc
localhost:/home/xxx# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XXX
inet6 addr: XXX/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5974 (5.8 KiB) TX bytes:984 (984.0 B)


localhost:/home/xxx# ifconfig rmnet0 promisc
localhost:/home/xxx# ifconfig rmnet0
rmnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XXXX
inet addr:XXX Bcast:XXX Mask:255.255.255.252
inet6 addr: XXX/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6697 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5909 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6159009 (5.8 MiB) TX bytes:855324 (835.2 KiB)