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Author:  kikadisa [ Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:13 am ]
Post subject:  [Solved]Debian install
Hi

I'm new on this forum and with a efika MX.

I would like to know how install debian on this awesome box ?
i downloaded the armel debian iso.
But with unetbootin it won't start.
i tred with usb image writer it won't recognize me any iso in my folder.

Then how can I install debian on a efika MX ?
Author:  PurpleAlien [ Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:41 am ]
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Hi.

You can check out the Debian Wiki here:
http://wiki.debian.org/EfikaMX

Here you can also find and SD image for the Efika with the ArmHF port of Debian:
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/vi ... php?t=2031


Johan.
Author:  kikadisa [ Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:53 am ]
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Ok, i grabbed the image on http://www.powerdeveloper.org/platforms/efikamx/linux
The image file was more recent 25sept.

And i'm copying it on a sdcard with zx command
But after can i install it on the internal SSD ?
Author:  zumbi [ Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:20 am ]
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Hi kikadisa,

Did the SD card booted on your device fine?
It is possible to install in the internal memory but its not straight forward and you risk to brick your device as there is not proper installer (yet).

Cheers
Author:  kikadisa [ Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:43 am ]
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Hi

After the second boot everything was fine i had a debian on my sd card working.

But i can't install Debian on the SSD because there's no tools for that ?
But is there a release date for this awesome tool ?

EDIT : Finally i will stay on the ubuntu factory release and i will remove all the stuff i don't need. I want a minimal system and after do what i want
Author:  zumbi [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:49 am ]
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Quote:
But i can't install Debian on the SSD because there's no tools for that ?
Do you have a serial dongle just in case something goes wrong?
You can basically mount internal disk into a directory and tranfer SD card contents into internal memory, i.e.
Code:
$ sudo su
# mkdir -p /mnt/{mmc,sda}
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda # sda2 should have internal rootfs
# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/mmc
# ls /mnt/{mmc,sda}
# rm -rf /mnt/sda/*
# cp -a /mnt/mmc/* /mnt/sda
# sync
# umount /mnt/mmc
# umount /mnt/sda
# reboot
Quote:
But is there a release date for this awesome tool ?
For something more advanced, we'll have to wait for armhf to get into official Debian archive, then we'll be able to use debian-installer. Which should happen soon... see http://bugs.debian.org/615513#40

Best regards
Author:  kikadisa [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:56 pm ]
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I had some bug by juste copying the second partition
then i also duplicate /boot on the first partition (sda1)

After i decided to remove all graphical package (gnome*) and fetchmail, postfix.

It take 75s to boot.
And i had a bug with networkManger.
I solved it by editing /etc/resolv.conf
and setup /etc/network/interfaces

It seems to be working.
Author:  kikadisa [ Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:01 pm ]
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Finaly i decided to get back.
In fact i need Debian armel.
But if i understand well in fact there is no package for hardware accelaration ? Except on armhf ?

In fact i just want to launch XBMC (a media center) on the Smarttop. On debian-multimedia they only have an armel repository.

I began to do a rootfs with debootstrap but how can i generate uImage and uInitrd ?
Author:  zumbi [ Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:40 am ]
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Quote:
Finaly i decided to get back.
In fact i need Debian armel.
But if i understand well in fact there is no package for hardware accelaration ? Except on armhf ?
Not sure about this one, I think there are no hardware acceleration packages for Debian/armel.
Quote:
In fact i just want to launch XBMC (a media center) on the Smarttop. On debian-multimedia they only have an armel repository.
It might be good to rebuild for armhf, but be careful as now some Debian packages conflict with debian-multimedia packages.
Quote:
I began to do a rootfs with debootstrap but how can i generate uImage and uInitrd ?
uImage and uInitrd are created with flash-kernel tool.
Author:  kikadisa [ Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:40 am ]
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Then what must i do ?

Take Armhf debian and compil XBMC(and all lib) on it.

Or try again to install squeeze armel ?

Finally i thinks i will take Sid Armhf more easy.
Author:  zumbi [ Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:46 am ]
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Quote:
Then what must i do ?

Take Armhf debian and compil XBMC(and all lib) on it.

Or try again to install squeeze armel ?

Finally i thinks i will take Sid Armhf more easy.
You are probably better set if you take armhf instead squeeze armel.
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