Yes you can use any key... I dont have a N800 ... to tests.... sorry!

Use xev to get the key values....

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I got some errors from japanese debian repo ...
Then I changed ftp.jp.debian.org repository, and using: ftp.uk.debian.org

Sorry to bother you guys but I read bluetooth works for this 3rd release. Are you sure about that ? I am trying for hours now to pair my Igo keyboard without success. Worst, I can't even display the bluetooth applet configuration box (I can but it does not really fit).

Is there any chance that I can use my Igo BTkb with that system ?

Regards

Ok I finally got it pairing the ol' way (editing /etc/bluetooth files by hand). That's great.

Although I love the alternate system, I think I will stick with maemo for one reason: debian onto the n810 tablet is really damn slooooowwwww. That's a pity but given the fact maemo is already slow, debian is even worst

Hi all! I tried this install but am not able to get it to work yet. That is not my main problem though... It seems my battery is being drained somehow in meamo (even in inactive mode) since I've been messing with this... As anyone had similar problems? I will re-install tonight and hope it's just a system problem and not an hardware problem.

W

No problem with the battery draining phenomenon here.

I've decided to boot deban on my memory card and i have created a ext2 partition but i'm not shure on how to mount the partitions and untar Debain into the partition. can you help?

Heres what i'm guessing is on how to mount the partition and untar Debain into ithe partition.


mounnting partitions:

insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/mbcache.ko

insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/ext2.ko

mkdir /opt/

mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /opt

mkdir /floppy/

mount -t /media/mmc2/debian-armel-n800-xfce-beta3.tar.bz2 /media/mmc2 /floppy


untaring to partitions:


/media/mmc2 bzcat debian-armel-n800-beta2.tar.bz2 | tar xv - -C /opt


unmounting filesystems and directorys:


umount /opt

umount /floppy

chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask:immc2

shutdown -r now


If you can help me make corrections to this method, i wold appreciate it very much!!

You might need this:
You say this:
It looks like you're trying to mount a tar; that's no good. The tar is already somewhere; I presume on mmc2. No further action is needed prior to untarring.

I'd get GNU tar, and useThe rest looks OK, I guess, assuming you already have a suitable initfs. (I don't think the stock initfs will work; you need Fanoush's initfs_flasher.)

Thanks! when you mean that you need to use Fanoush's initfs_flasher, your saying that i also need it for mounting and extracting Debain into that partition too?, i allrety have a boot menu.

And for future refrence, i herd that you could just re-format penguinbati's "boot from sd Deb" partitions and just replace the cloned os with Debain, how can i do this??

No, if you've got a bootmenu on there, and it has an entry for the new partition, then you're good. If you've got a bootmenu, and it doesn't have the entry, but there's enough free space, you can remount it rw, and add it. If not, then you'll need initfs_flasher.

It's not needed for mounting that partition or extracting Debian into it. It's needed for reflashing the initfs...


For "formatting" a partition, use mkfs.whatever

This is pretty important for Debian booters, too:

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