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:Choose your language(s). | :Choose your language(s). | ||
- | :DIABLO/N8x0: Note that you should choose the language with no period between the language and the iso code (eg. " | + | :DIABLO/N8x0: Note that you should choose the language with no period between the language and the iso code (eg. "en_CA ISO-8859-1"), and optionally, the utf-8 version, too (eg. "en_CA.UTF-8"). |
:FREMANTLE/N900: Choose the UTF-8 version. | :FREMANTLE/N900: Choose the UTF-8 version. | ||
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apt-get install localepurge; localepurge | apt-get install localepurge; localepurge | ||
- | :This will get you at least | + | :This will get you at least 80MB back. You should probably do this first, before starting to install. Running out of space during an install in Debian is ugly. |
- | :Also, when downloading packages, remember to frequently use " | + | :Also, when downloading packages, remember to frequently use "apt-get clean" to clear out old downloaded packages. That will help with free space. |
:If you're comfortable with the command line, you can use the technique listed in [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=233305#post233305 this post] to double your install space. | :If you're comfortable with the command line, you can use the technique listed in [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=233305#post233305 this post] to double your install space. | ||
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'''A:''' Iceweasel is the Debian name for Firefox. It's a long story, but in short, Mozilla and Debian had a philosophical disagreement that ended in Debian renaming Firefox to Iceweasel.<br> | '''A:''' Iceweasel is the Debian name for Firefox. It's a long story, but in short, Mozilla and Debian had a philosophical disagreement that ended in Debian renaming Firefox to Iceweasel.<br> | ||
- | '''Q:''' I would like to have a separate | + | '''Q:''' I would like to have a separate /home/user directory under Debian than under Maemo. Is that possible?<br> |
- | '''A:''' | + | '''A:''' /sbin/qchroot script does mountings; one option is to not mount /home/user at all by commenting out the corresponding line in that script, which is |
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 "$CHROOT/home" | mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 "$CHROOT/home" | ||
- | for FREMANTLE/N900. Then | + | for FREMANTLE/N900. Then /home/user/MyDocs will still get mounted, but you can keep a Debian home directory separately, in the chroot. |
'''Q:''' How is this different than the [http://trac.tspre.org/projects/nit-debian Deblet project]?<br> | '''Q:''' How is this different than the [http://trac.tspre.org/projects/nit-debian Deblet project]?<br> | ||
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'''Q:''' I already have Debian in a partition, or I'm running Deblet. How can I use your package with my Debian?<br> | '''Q:''' I already have Debian in a partition, or I'm running Deblet. How can I use your package with my Debian?<br> | ||
- | '''A:''' Edit the | + | '''A:''' Edit the /home/user/.chroot file to point to your Debian partition or image file. Easy Debian will do the rest. |
- | '''NOTE:''' If you are using Deblet, delete the | + | '''NOTE:''' If you are using Deblet, delete the /home/user/.synchroot file before running Easy Debian for the first time, so your Deblet config files don't get overwritten. Remember that you'll need to make a user called "user" in Deblet (with the proper ID) for things to work correctly. Also note that your maemo home directory will be used by default. This can also be changed in the .chroot file. |
== Debian "wheezy" images == | == Debian "wheezy" images == |
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