User:Jebba/Fedora

Revision as of 19:45, 1 January 2010

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

Fedora 12 on N900

Screen reads:

Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
Kernel 2.6.28-omap1-jebba5 on an arm7l (tty1)

fedora-arm login: _

1 HOWTO Install Fedora 12 on Nokia N900
2 See also

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.

# Boot up into Maemo / Fremantle

# Grab this package:
wget http://www.daimi.au.dk/~cvm/bootmenu_1.6_armel.deb

# Be root
sudo gainroot

# Install bootmenu
dpkg -i bootmenu_1.6_armel.deb

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).

# edit/create this file to create a boot menu item for Fedora:
vim /etc/bootmenu.d/fedora.ext.item

# Make it look justa lika thisa:

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"

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.

Set up and download the needed files:

# This will be a nice place to keep things
mkdir -p /home/user/MyDocs/Fedora/rootfs

# go hence
cd /home/user/MyDocs/Fedora/rootfs

# grab the root image
wget http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/rootfs/rootfs-f12.tar.bz2

fedora-setup-in-chroot

Make this file and put it here: /home/user/MyDocs/Fedora/fedora-setup-in-chroot

Note, in future revisions, I will have more in this script, this is just a starting point for now.

#!/bin/sh

set -x

echo "uh, set a root password!"
passwd

freemoe-fedora-install

Make & run this script:

#!/bin/sh

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

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

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