I was just planning to use gparted for maemo. It worked perfectly for partitioning a usb drive hooked up to my tablet; so, it should work fine for the internal card. BTW, addison, you don't need to partition your card to run easy debian. You just need an image; partition for better performance.

I HAVE FURY!!!!! *lol*




Okay, so I should have a few hours of freedom late tomorrow night. I'll go back through the wiki again and try to find all of the innumerable mistakes I'm making.

For some reason though, I have this feeling that learning how to install and then use Easy Debian is going to require brain surgery and a lifetime exposure to the proper flashcards. *lol*

Addison: It is "untar" not "unrar".

I think your best bet is to put the tar.bz2 file on your tablet (somewhere you can access it from the tablet itself), along with the partitioned card, then open a terminal and type:

You have to substitute the correct numbers wherever I put a ? above. Hopefully you partitioned your card with a FAT partition followed by an ext2 partition. So your qmount line will probably read /dev/mmcblk1p1 and, if you put the bz2 file on the internal memory of an N810, the gtar line might read /media/mmc1/debian-m5-v3b-rootfs.tar.bz2

Hey qole.

I know that you're one of those pretty, fancy boys that uses a Mac computer, but does this look about right to you?

I've got a 4 gig SanDisk card with nothing on it if that makes any turd of a difference.

Cheers buddy.

Addison:

I don't use a Mac. I use Linux and sometimes Windows XP.

And ext2 would be #83. So your first partition would be "0B FAT32" (make it 2 GB) and the second partition would be "83 Linux" (or whatever it is called in your app).

Joy!

I'll give it a whirl later tonight.

Not sure why I thought you were a Mac user, so sorry for calling you a pretty boy though I'm sure you've been called worse.

Be nice.

Debian WOW! NIT lives on!

I ran Sunspider benchmark on a few browsers and Debian does well on my N800.

MAEMO
Fennec 1.0 (Firefox Mobile) | 35243ms
Midori v0.1.4 | 68232ms
Tear 3.5-1 | 71847ms
MicroB too many script stops

DEBIAN
Kazehakase v0.5.8 | 55305ms
Iceweasel v3.5.8 (Firefox) | 59243ms
Midori v0.1.8 | 77015ms
Epipathy v2.29.3 | 81321ms

Got more benchmarks coming at...my first blog

http://tabletuser.blogspot.com

I've got Tear running on my Nokia 770 under OS2008HE and its awesome to have my 770 with new life.

Tear 108584ms

NIT are great! Boot to SD and install Debian and play!

I goobered my memory card last night trying to make a partition out of it.

Now all I get are corrupt memory card errors even after reformatting it all.

I should be shot just on general principle for how stupid I've become.

Well, I do have a gparted CD that boots when I restart the computer.

Any chance there's a step by step, dummy proof tutorial on getting that ext2 and fat32 partition on the same memory card?

Any forum I found through google makes me feel a tad bit dyspeptic just by looking at it.

I don't get why it should be this hard...

Okay.

So in File manager, it's saying that my memory card is incorrectly formatted or corrupted and asked if I wanted it to be repaired.

Sure! That would be most lovely.

"Unable to repair memory card. Format card via File Manager."

So again, on my tablet I went to File manager -> Tools -> Reformat memory card.

I clicked on okay.

There was some type of status bar thingy on the top right of the screen that never filled up.

Nothing happened. No poopsquat. No nothing. Not even a screw you message.

I'm thinking I blew up my SanDisk Card somehow.



Then depression sets in.....