User:Jebba/Fedora
I have installed Fedora 12 on my Nokia N900. HOWTO forthcoming.
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Fedora release 12 (Constantine) Kernel 2.6.28-omap1-jebba5 on an arm7l (tty1) fedora-arm login: _
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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.)
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.
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