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- | + | The o2 Joggler is a powerful digitcal photoframe by o2/OpenPeak. | |
+ | It comes with an Intel Atom cpu and touch screen control. | ||
- | + | 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 | + | |
Stskeeps has started a blog documenting the the tricks and sources needed to build different parts of the system: http://jogglerhacks.blogspot.com | Stskeeps has started a blog documenting the the tricks and sources needed to build different parts of the system: http://jogglerhacks.blogspot.com | ||
- | Mer is a good choice as it is | + | Mer is a good choice as it is omtimised for small screens and hardware support is good. |
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: | ||
- | WLAN/LAN/USB/Sound*/Touchscreen - | + | 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: | ||
- | http://asdfghjkl.me.uk/ | + | http://asdfghjkl.me.uk/mer-efi-nokeyboard.tar.gz |
- | ( | + | (note that this will '''ONLY''' work with Mer non-interactively, i.e. with no keyboard. If you want it to work with Ubuntu MID, use http://asdfghjkl.me.uk/mid-efi-nokeyboard.tar.gz instead. Otherwise, use http://www.gforums.de/juggler/mer-efi.tar.gz, which works with other operating systems but does require a keyboard and USB hub.) |
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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. | ||
- | The efi-nokeyboard.tar.gz goes to the first FAT16 partition of your | + | The mer-efi-nokeyboard.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 | ||
- | Run "sudo tar pzxvf /path to | + | Run "sudo tar pzxvf /path to ware you saved the tar files/mer-efi-nokeyboard.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 | ||
- | Run "sudo tar --numeric-owner -pzxvf /path to | + | 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, | ||
- | 1.) unmount your | + | 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> | ||
3.) insert the usb stick<br> | 3.) insert the usb stick<br> | ||
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5.) wait for mer to boot<br> | 5.) wait for mer to boot<br> | ||
6.) you should see the console screen. Wait some seconds and the welcome guide comes up. Enter all things needed.<br> | 6.) you should see the console screen. Wait some seconds and the welcome guide comes up. Enter all things needed.<br> | ||
- | 7.) when done, you should see the desktop of mer | + | 7.) when done, you should see the desktop of mer linux. Congrats! |
'''Trouble Shooting''': | '''Trouble Shooting''': | ||
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http://www.gforums.de/juggler/mer4juggler-fix.tar.gz | http://www.gforums.de/juggler/mer4juggler-fix.tar.gz | ||
- | Here is a | + | 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 ( | + | Modification to mer-efi.tar.gz (mer-efi-nokeyboard.tar.gz) by Hexxeh, Stskeeps, asdfghjkl: |
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+ | - uses GRUB instead of refit, thus requires no keyboard input to boot. | ||
- | + | [[Category:Mer]] | |
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