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Hi jidanni,

I hope you are reading this.

Am Donnerstag, den 09.10.2008, 01:00 +0000 schrieb Debian Wiki :
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> Dear Wiki user,
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> The following page has been changed by jidanni:
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner
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> The comment on the change is:
> sparse file savings
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Thanks for your contributions to the wiki. But please do not use the
Wiki page as medium for discussion. The page is already too large
anyways, and having TODO items and unanswered questions on it does not
help the user.

Instead, please post the questions on one of the mailing lists, discuss
them, and if there is a solution, make a concise addition to the wiki.

Now to your concrete questions:


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>   =3D Installing and Using Debian on an OpenMoko FreeRunner =3D
>   You can install Debian on your [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeR=
unner OpenMoko FreeRunner], and use that system to fulfill your telephone n=
eeds. You can then use almost all of the packages available for Debian, wit=
h just one call to {{{apt-get install}}}. It=E2=80=99s still the same full =
featured Distribution that you know from your desktop or server.
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> + TODO: please mention at this point in the article if we will end up wit=
h dual booting ability with the former system or not.
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This is already explained at =E2=80=9CAdjusting your uBoot environment=E2=
=80=9D. I don=E2=80=99t
think this should be duplicated.

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>   =3D=3D Notes =3D=3D
>   This installer is relatively new and probably contains bugs. You use it=
 at your own risk.
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>   =3D=3D Backup =3D=3D
>   If you do not have a card reader to backup your MicroSD card, you can c=
opy the contents of the card including partition data over a network. You w=
ill need a booted Freerunner with network access (USB, Wireless etc.) and a=
 *nix-based machine. Make sure power management is not set to suspend on th=
e FreeRunner.
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> + TODO: please mention if we need to backup other disks/items of the Free=
Runner or not and why.
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>   If you wish to take a backup of your MicroSD card to restore from later=
, run the following from your Freerunner:

The installer does not touch anything else, so nothing to mention here.

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>   {{{
>   dd if=3D/dev/mmcblk0 | ssh user@backup.server "gzip -9 > sdcard.gz"
>   }}}
> - This will create a compressed backup of your card performing the compre=
ssion on the backup server (assuming that it's more powerful than 400MHz). =
To restore, run the following from your backup server:
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> + This will create a compressed backup of your card performing the compre=
ssion on the backup server (assuming that it's more powerful than 400MHz). =
(Then one can get bigger squeezings if one uses sparse files:)
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> + {{{
> + $ gunzip sdcard.gz; zum sdcard; tar zScf sdcard.tar.gz sdcard; ls -sog
> + 51 -r--r--r-- 1 510132224 2008-10-07 13:18 sdcard
> +  3 -rw-r--r-- 1      2745 2008-10-09 08:29 sdcard.tar.gz
> + }}}
> + To restore, run the following from your backup server:

What is zum?
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>  =20
>   II) Set boot partition to be vfat by running {{{SD_PART1_FS=3Dvfat ./in=
stall.sh all}}}. Now you do not need to mess with modifying U-Boot's defaul=
t setup.
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> + (Though the partition exists, it takes up all the disk, and we need to =
make more partitions.)
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What do you mean by this? I don=E2=80=99t quite understand that.

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>   Now be patient for a while, as the script downloads, installs and sets =
up everything it needs. Once it finishes without an error, you have to adju=
st your uBoot environment:
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>   In case of temporary errors (for example network problems), you can re-=
enter the installation by specifying the stages you want to run:

Thanks,
Joachim

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Debian Developer
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