On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:22:56PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > I just finished the creation of a repository on people.debian.org > > that provides the packages needed to run Debian GNU/Linux on the > > Toshiba AC100 notebook device. > > Very cool, thanks! > > I'm currently at DebConf with my AC100 (32GB, 3G, WLAN)and I currently You can be happy, you have 4 times as much storage as I have. > have Ubuntu Natty running on it (who the fuck had the idea to ship > that netbook with Android? :-), but really would like to get Debian > armhf running on it. > > Any other AC100 owner at DebConf? I am NOT there, but let me warn you that web browsing in the GTK+ world on armhf is currently missing JIT-enabled engines. The only web browsers usable on more JavaScript-intensive sites are Qt ones such as Arora, and even Arora is pretty slow and crashy. KHTML browsers might work as well, I did not check it. Otherwise, the armhf support is as good as armel support, with the exception of accelerated X which is armel only for now, until Nvidia releases the drivers for armhf publicly. Installation guide (all on the device itself): (1) Bootstrap Debian on USB stick, SD, or eMMC (2) Install busybox and initramfs-tools (3) Set MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf (4) Copy /boot/bootimg.cfg to Debian and configure cmdline[*] (4) (bind) mount /proc and /dev (5) Install abootimg flash-kernel linux-image-ac100 Alternatively, you can also do all steps on another machine, reboot with the Ubuntu kernel into the Debian system and then run flash-kernel manually to install the Debian kernel. It's a bit complicated currently, because there's no boot.img available that you could nvflash to the target device. But that's actually the most complicated part, the rest is fairly easy. [*] Future versions of flash-kernel will ignore that file and only update kernel and initramfs; and hopefully kernel commandline set in /etc/default/flash-kernel or similar [kernel command-line stuff not written yet] -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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