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The o2 Joggler is a powerful digitcal photoframe by o2/OpenPeak.
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It comes with an Intel Atom cpu and touch screen control.
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The o2 Joggler is a powerful digital photoframe by o2/OpenPeak. It comes with an Intel Atom CPU and touch screen control.
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As it uses an EFI bootloader, it's rather simple to start other linux versions than the built in using elilo.
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As it uses an EFI bootloader, it's rather simple to start other Linux versions than the built in using elilo.
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Mer is a good choice as it is omtimised for small screens and hardware support is good.
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Stskeeps has started a blog documenting the the tricks and sources needed to build different parts of the system: http://jogglerhacks.blogspot.com
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Mer is a good choice as it is optimised for small screens and hardware support is good.
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Mer will be installed on (and boot from) a USB stick and your Joggler's main OS should not be affected (although the usual caveats apply and there is a risk that you may brick your device).
Mer will be installed on (and boot from) a USB stick and your Joggler's main OS should not be affected (although the usual caveats apply and there is a risk that you may brick your device).
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Other hardware works now completely:
Other hardware works now completely:
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WLAN/LAN/USB/Sound*/Touchscreen - that's all the o2 Joggler offers.
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WLAN/LAN/USB/Sound*/Touchscreen - thats all the o2 Joggler offers.
*Sound still with troubles.
*Sound still with troubles.
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You also need a second file which contains the bootloader:
You also need a second file which contains the bootloader:
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  http://asdfghjkl.me.uk/files/joggler/efi-nokeyboard.tar.gz
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  http://www.gforums.de/juggler/mer-efi.tar.gz
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(tested and working on Mer and Ubuntu MID)
 
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Your USB stick should have 2 partitions: a 64Mb FAT16, a 512M (or larger) ext3 (not ext2)
Your USB stick should have 2 partitions: a 64Mb FAT16, a 512M (or larger) ext3 (not ext2)
After downloading the archives, untar them to your usb stick.
After downloading the archives, untar them to your usb stick.
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The efi-nokeyboard.tar.gz goes to the first FAT16 partition of your USB drive,
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The mer-efi.tar.gz goes to the first FAT16 partition of your usb drive,
mer-joggler...tar.gz to the second ext3 partition.
mer-joggler...tar.gz to the second ext3 partition.
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Then  
Then  
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Run "sudo tar pzxvf  /path to where you saved the tar files/efi-nokeyboard.tar.gz" to untar the efi.
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Run "sudo tar pzxvf  /path to ware you saved the tar files/mer-efi.tar.gz" to untar the efi.
Then cd the path of your USB stick's second partition (the ext3 one)
Then cd the path of your USB stick's second partition (the ext3 one)
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Then  
Then  
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Run "sudo tar --numeric-owner -pzxvf  /path to where you saved the tar files/mer-juggler-alpha_015.tar.gz" to untar the mer OS.
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Run "sudo tar --numeric-owner -pzxvf  /path to ware you saved the tar files/mer-juggler-alpha_015.tar.gz" to untar the mer OS.
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note: The v in the -pzxvf above is optional, it just gives you a running list of what it is untaring as it goes.
note: The v in the -pzxvf above is optional, it just gives you a running list of what it is untaring as it goes.
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Having done this,
Having done this,
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1.) unmount your USB drive partitions and wait until you can remove them.<br>
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1.) unmount your usb drive partitions and wait until you can remove them.<br>
2.) turn off your joggler<br>
2.) turn off your joggler<br>
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3.) insert the usb stick<br>
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3.) insert a usb hub with usb keyboard (for testing, debugging)<br>
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4.) turn on the joggler<br>
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4.) turn on the joggler and wait a second<br>
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5.) wait for mer to boot<br>
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5.) now insert quickly your usb drive<br>
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6.) you should see the console screen. Wait some seconds and the welcome guide comes up. Enter all things needed.<br>
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6.) keep pressing ESC several times to stop the open peak bootloader from loading.<br>
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7.) when done, you should see the desktop of mer Linux. Congrats!
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7.) type (blind) fs1:boot<br>
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8.) you should see refit bootloader screen. If not, you've probably done something wrong. Try the first steps again.<br>
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9.) Press enter to boot elilo trough efi.<br>
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10.) You should see the console screen. Wait some seconds and the welcome guide comes up. Enter all things needed.<br>
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'''Trouble Shooting''':
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11.) when done, you should see the desktop of mer linux. Congrats!
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''' Some people have encountered problems booting Mer when using a USB hub. If you encounter read errors during the boot process then try connect your USB storage device directly to the Joggler without a hub.
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http://www.gforums.de/juggler/mer4juggler-fix.tar.gz
http://www.gforums.de/juggler/mer4juggler-fix.tar.gz
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Here is a list of all changes I have made:
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Here is a liste of all changes I have made:
- modified the startup script (99wizard) to ask for timezone, time, date<br>
- modified the startup script (99wizard) to ask for timezone, time, date<br>
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gforums
gforums
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Modification to mer-efi.tar.gz (http://asdfghjkl.me.uk/files/joggler/efi-nokeyboard.tar.gz) by Hexxeh, Stskeeps, asdfghjkl:
 
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- uses GRUB instead of refit, thus requires no keyboard input to boot.<br>
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[[Category:Mer]]
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- kernel version 2.6.30 fixes video issues.<br>
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- kernel is now stored on the FAT16 partition, making it trivial to upgrade from windows if/when required.<br>
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