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[danmalone72]

kendon, on Nov 10 2009, 08:50, said:

ah man, and i forgot my hero at home today sucks big time.

Haha unlucky buddy! When you get it get to work weve got a frekin desktop enviroment lets try get flash 10 working?!

[kendon]

danmalone72, on Nov 10 2009, 18:36, said:

Haha unlucky buddy! When you get it get to work weve got a frekin desktop enviroment lets try get flash 10 working?!

sure we can try, but flash and linux on a low powered device, via vnc... i don't know, but i don't see that happen tbh...

[danmalone72]

kendon, on Nov 10 2009, 17:48, said:

sure we can try, but flash and linux on a low powered device, via vnc... i don't know, but i don't see that happen tbh...

I can see it running i can see it just being disgustingly unusable but hey if we do all the groundwork maybe someone smart will make it work i read a thread on xda about a guy who has debian as his main operating system on his phone like it boots to it !!  but hes a foreigner and its horrible to try read

[kendon]

danmalone72, on Nov 10 2009, 19:20, said:

I can see it running i can see it just being disgustingly unusable but hey if we do all the groundwork maybe someone smart will make it work i read a thread on xda about a guy who has debian as his main operating system on his phone like it boots to it !!  but hes a foreigner and its horrible to try read

do you happen to have a link?

[danmalone72]

kendon, on Nov 10 2009, 18:54, said:

do you happen to have a link?

http://forum.xda-dev...d...4419&page=7
I think its fuktheregister i didnt really re read it haha just give it a look , just realized i installed debian wrong and im trying to fix it ! grrr its failing on the first line it says it cant find ./fsrw ?? did you have the problem... like even when it says that i can still run debian and lxde but i think the underlying file systems are empty due to the faulty instalation!

[danmalone72]

grrr its failing on the first line it says it cant find ./fsrw ?? did you have the problem... like even when it says that i can still run debian and lxde but i think the underlying file systems are empty due to the faulty instalation!

Anyone help please??

[kendon]

try to do the process from the beginning. if it is missing fsrw you either forgot to change the directory or did not copy all the files from the archive to the debian directory on your sdcard, i think.

you download the file from post #4 in this thread. extract it to your pc. replace the contents of installer.sh with the quoted text in post #4 (use notepad++ or something that is able to handle linux style linebreaks if you are on windows). replace the bootdeb file with the one from post #14. then copy all that to the root of your sdcard, in folder called debian. then open connectbot on your phone, start local shell, enter following commands:

su -
cd /sdcard/debian
sh installer.sh
bootdeb

then you are in debian environment, congratulations . because it is your first start you need to execute

/scripts/onetime.sh

after that type exit, and do that everytime you want to "shut down" debian.
from now on, if you want to start it, open local shell in connectbot and type:

su -
bootdeb

you can automate that in connectbot by passing these commands in the post-login automation, long click the host entry.

Edited by kendon, 11 November 2009 - 11:27 PM.

[danmalone72]

no luck after sh installer.sh i get no such file cannot open ./fsrw WHYYYY!?
follow ur instructions to the letter..

[kendon]

danmalone72, on Nov 12 2009, 01:24, said:

no luck after sh installer.sh i get no such file cannot open ./fsrw WHYYYY!?
follow ur instructions to the letter..

can you give us the output of "adb shell ls -al /sdcard/debian/", just usb-cable plugged in and nothing else done before?

Edited by kendon, 12 November 2009 - 11:34 AM.

[danmalone72]

C:\Documents and Settings\Dan>adb shell ls -al /sdcard/debian/
drwxrwxrwx    2 1000     1000         4096 Nov 12 00:43 ←[1;34m.←[0m
drwxrwxrwx   18 1000     1000         4096 Jan  1  1970 ←[1;34m..←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000         2692 Nov 10 19:56 ←[1;32mbootdeb←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000    750000000 Jan  8  2009 ←[1;32mdebian.img←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000          102 Jan  9  2009 ←[1;32mfsrw←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000          866 Mar 13  2009 ←[1;32mmountonly←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000          420 Jan  9  2009 ←[1;32munionfs←[0m

[kendon]

danmalone72, on Nov 12 2009, 14:47, said:

C:\Documents and Settings\Dan>adb shell ls -al /sdcard/debian/
drwxrwxrwx    2 1000     1000         4096 Nov 12 00:43 ←[1;34m.←[0m
drwxrwxrwx   18 1000     1000         4096 Jan  1  1970 ←[1;34m..←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000         2692 Nov 10 19:56 ←[1;32mbootdeb←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000    750000000 Jan  8  2009 ←[1;32mdebian.img←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000          102 Jan  9  2009 ←[1;32mfsrw←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000          866 Mar 13  2009 ←[1;32mmountonly←[0m
-rwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000          420 Jan  9  2009 ←[1;32munionfs←[0m

the fsrw file is there and has the right size. i actually just booted into windows to confirm the weird output...
but i don't see the installer.sh? this should produce a different error, strange... anyway, if you want to try it again i wrote together the necessary steps and put the files into an archive, see attachment. use gedit for windows if the .txt is all in one line.

edit: i modded the installer.sh to work without the fsrw file, didn't see the point using it when you are root anyway? try it again please.

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[danmalone72]

Woo! worked without a flaw thank you very much!!
The lxde thing if you use the image from http://forum.xda-dev...;highlight=lxde lxde is pre-installed i did however encounter an error using that links image upon bootdeb i recieve:

Android directories are mounted under /android/

Type exit to end session
Make sure you do a proper exit for a clean kill of Debian!

rm: cannot remove directory `tmp': Device or resource busy
mkdir: cannot create directory `tmp': File exists

New 'X' desktop is localhost:1

Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/localhost:1.log

localhost:/#

Im not sure about the tmp thing what do you thinks going on there?
Thanks again for the walkthrough was real nice!

[kendon]

danmalone72, on Nov 12 2009, 15:57, said:

Woo! worked without a flaw thank you very much!!
The lxde thing if you use the image from http://forum.xda-dev...;highlight=lxde lxde is pre-installed i did however encounter an error using that links image upon bootdeb i recieve:

instead of

export USER=root
cd /
rm -r -f tmp
mkdir tmp
cd /
vncserver -geometry 480x320 

put this into your .bashrc:

export USER=root
rm -rf /tmp/* 2&> /dev/null
vncserver -geometry 480x320 

then it won't bother you anymore.

[kendon]

lol this sick, i am actually running a full blown ubuntu on my hero... actually it is unusable, but it starts... took me three hours to install, gonna try ubuntu-mid now maybe xfce later...

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[sik_gerar]

@kendon: how did you get a 800x600 screen size? weird isn't it?

[kwiksand]

sik_gerar, on Nov 13 2009, 11:44, said:

@kendon: how did you get a 800x600 screen size? weird isn't it?

hhaah, nicely played!

[kendon]

sik_gerar, on Nov 13 2009, 12:44, said:

@kendon: how did you get a 800x600 screen size? weird isn't it?

no, actually it is pretty easy. started the vncserver with -geometry 800x600 and opened the vncviewer on my laptop. have you ever tried to use gnome with 320x480?

[encrypt]

kendon, on Nov 13 2009, 07:29, said:

lol this sick, i am actually running a full blown ubuntu on my hero... actually it is unusable, but it starts... took me three hours to install, gonna try ubuntu-mid now maybe xfce later...

Nice work guys. Thanks all for the info.

kendon, any success running ubuntu-mid? It looks awesome!!!

[ndep]

could someone please upload the debian image to another file sharing site, such as megaupload, rapidshare? It seems to take forever to get a free download slot at FileFactory...

[ndep]

ndep, on Dec 31 2009, 11:11, said:

could someone please upload the debian image to another file sharing site, such as megaupload, rapidshare? It seems to take forever to get a free download slot at FileFactory...

no hassle, my bad...I didn't realize an account is needed to download from FileFactory, and so many annoying ads... rapidshare is really much cleaner