User:Jebba/Fedora

I have installed Fedora 12 on my Nokia N900. HOWTO forthcoming.



Screen reads:

Fedora release 12 (Constantine) Kernel 2.6.28-omap1-jebba5 on an arm7l (tty1) fedora-arm login: _

=HOWTO Install Fedora 12 on Nokia N900= It boots up happily. No GUI, no phonecalls, no battery charging support, etc.

Kernel
You will need to install a kernel that has a framebuffer console. You can use your own or use mine. See: Installing my custom kernel if you would like to use mine. Version 2.6.28-omap1-jebba5 is known to "work".

bootmenu
You need to have getbootstate version 1.0.35+0m5 or greater for this to work. These docs are basically the same as installing Mer.

dpkg -l getbootstate

(As a side note, getbootstate is closed software. Please vote for this bug and/or clamour for it to be released as free software.)


 * discussion on t.m.o

I have four partitions on my MicroSD card. The first one is 100M of VFAT just to shut up fremantle. The second is 1G of swap. The third is 7G of space for fremantle. The remaining space is around 7G of space for Fedora. You can install it in far less space, but I have a 16G card, so that's what I did. These docs assume you use my partitioning.

wget http://www.daimi.au.dk/~cvm/bootmenu_1.6_armel.deb sudo gainroot dpkg -i bootmenu_1.6_armel.deb
 * 1) Boot up into Maemo / Fremantle
 * 1) Grab this package:
 * 1) Be root
 * 1) Install bootmenu

Then tappy tap tap the bootmenu install icon and answer yes.

Now you need to set up Fedora in the menu for bootmenu. See also: Mer bootmenu docs.

I put everything on the forth partition on an ext3 formatted "external" MicroSD card (the one that's right next to the camera).

vim /etc/bootmenu.d/fedora.ext.item ITEM_NAME="Fedora 12 (external SD, partition 4)" ITEM_ID="fedora" ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p4" ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3" ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3" ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime,rw"
 * 1) edit/create this file to create a boot menu item for Fedora:
 * 1) Make it look justa lika thisa:

Then shutoff the phone and reboot with KEYBOARD SLID OUT, so you get the bootmenu.

rootfs
Boot into your system like "normal" into Maemo fremantle.

freemoe-fedora-install
Make & run this script:

set -x echo "this is going to format your microsd, take care!" echo "THIS FORMATS PARTITION 4 ON YOUR MICROSD" read ok read ok exit 0 # you get this i hope echo sudo umount /dev/mmcblk1p4 sudo mkfs.ext3 -j -m1 /dev/mmcblk1p4 sudo fsck -vvv /dev/mmcblk1p4
 * 1) !/bin/sh

sudo mkdir -p /media/mmc4 sudo mount -o noatime /dev/mmcblk1p4 /media/mmc4/ cd /media/mmc4/ bzcat /home/user/MyDocs/Fedora/rootfs/rootfs-f12.tar.bz2 | sudo tar x sudo mv rootfs-f12/*. sudo rmdir rootfs-f12 sudo cp -a /lib/modules/* /media/mmc4/lib/modules/ echo "WARNING WARNING WARNING!!!!" echo "Copying over NON-FREE FIRMWARE" echo "PAY PENANCE!!!!" sudo cp -a /lib/firmware/* /media/mmc4/lib/firmware/ sudo cp -p /home/user/MyDocs/Fedora/fedora-setup-in-chroot ./ sudo chmod +x fedora-setup-in-chroot sync echo echo "now run ./fedora-setup-in-chroot after you enter the chroot" echo "this is convenient too:" echo "export HOME=/root" echo sudo chroot /media/mmc4 /bin/bash

=See also=


 * ARM at Fedora wiki


 * Fedora ARM blog


 * Fedora ARM mailing list archives


 * Fedora ARM bug tracker


 * Fedora ARM roots


 * My docs on installing Mer, which is similar procedure