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Cannot install Debian on JF 1.5 US? Help?

Hey, Im following
http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/community-forums.html?func=view&catid=9&id=2248
For how to set debian up. However chmod 4755 * fails for me saying operation not permitted when I am cd /sdcard/debian I read through a couple other posts on google and the site above where it says people can on versions pre 1.5 but once on 1.5 US it breaks the su whitelist some?
Anyways, Anyone have some ideas for me, as the google trail went cold for me as the people who had this issue was already at the end of the threads with no resolve or joy. Thanks. =)

too much in 'yo chmod!

hey i have set up mine. you just gotta forget about the chmod and just skip it and do the rest of the steps then type exit. then once it reboots, just type
su
cd /sdcard/debian
sh bootdeb
then it should be running

Yea I thought so too on the chmod step, so I tried going to the next, the installer.sh and said not allowed or something.

I tried running boot debian and so, and it came up with the load screen, then it had a chmod issue and then the G1 restarted. So what am I missing here? =/

hmm, im not entirely sure. when i installed it i simply
su
cd sdcard/debian
chmod 4755 *
su sh ./installer.sh
exit
su
cd sdcard/debian
sh bootdeb

Well I was reading other posts, Could it be a issue that Im already running apps off the EXT2 part of my SD card? I have the debian files on the FAT32 area. I saw some people saying that might be a cause of the issue?

if your debian dir is on fat32, you need to delete the first line of installer.sh script

Ok did that and the installer.sh ran did alot of not found errors then when I tried to bootdeb it looked like it was trying to load, then it rebooted the G1. =/
Any other ideas? Also if I wanna try to uninstall the work it did, what does it create to delete?

Mysticales said:
Ok did that and the installer.sh ran did alot of not found errors then when I tried to bootdeb it looked like it was trying to load, then it rebooted the G1. =/
Any other ideas? Also if I wanna try to uninstall the work it did, what does it create to delete?
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Which image are you using? There's one for fat32 and one for ext2. Try this: download fat32 version http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/unofficial-app-repo.html?func=fileinfo&id=21
you may need to remount when entering the following commands in the terminal
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
place zip file on sdcard. go to terminal and enter:
su
unzip "whatever_your_debian_file_is_named".zip (not sure what its called)
cd "whatever_your_debian_file_is_named"
cp installer.sh /sdcard/gscript
then go to Gscript and load installer.sh, before you save, delete the line that says "./fsrw"
then save this edited script as installer1.sh
go back to terminal
cp /sdcard/gscript/installer1.sh /sdcard/debian
cd /sdcard/debian
su
sh ./installer1.sh
sh ./bootdeb
if that doesnt work out try rebooting and doing these commands
cd /sdcard/debian
sh ./bootdeb

to delete, go to debian directory then
rm -r debian
afaik, all the data from debian is self-contained in debian.img

Ill try that, btw yea I have that file you linked to. But before I do this, the stuff your mentioning, wont affect the fact that I have my apps installed to the SD right? Mounting and unmounting things.

Mysticales said:
Ill try that, btw yea I have that file you linked to. But before I do this, the stuff your mentioning, wont affect the fact that I have my apps installed to the SD right? Mounting and unmounting things.
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No, your apps should be safe. If you're using the link I posted, you need to put debian on /sdcard which is fat32
you're apps2sd should be mounted at /system/sd and should be unaffected by your debian installation/uninstallation.
I'm not sure if remounting /system is required, but i think it allows you permissions so you can use the utilities in /system/bin. I would remount just to save myself time.
Btw, I could not chmod my debian directory, but debian runs fine for me.

jonnybueno said:
to delete, go to debian directory then
rm -r debian
afaik, all the data from debian is self-contained in debian.img
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Oops, my bad. Should be:
cd /sdcard or cd /system/sd depending on where you put your debian directory
the you can
rm -r debian

Jonny your great. =) The remounting thing worked! Then ran the installer, got alot of not found, but after that all, I booted into Debian, and did the onetime.sh to set the unix pw.
(Which for the record to anyone in the future doing a search on this once your in debian, do cd scripts and enter that folder and type sh onetime.sh )
Now onto the next step and adding a GUI Which gonna attempt that all now.
Edit: And Grr... not gonna try to do the rest of the repos on EDGE connection.. Gotta wait till I get home. =( (Wifi rules for linux starts lol)

I think the image we installed is only 750MB so from what I've read, it is advisable to resize your debian img. Thats another world of brain hurt for me... but there is this guy with this thread who is offering to upload his custom image.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=528262
5 more votes by the end of the day and maybe he'll upload it.

Well... I already did the resize heh. Got a 2.3GB image on right now, which fits on my 4GB, since I have a 1GB EXT2 Partition and rest is fat32.
I used ubuntu to make a image and mount both images and copied the data from one into the other, then did the tasks after I booted debian again to get everything smooth again. =) But I wont stop him from uploading his image if it has a GUI already installed, which is what im after atm. =)

Update, So far having a lil issue getting the desktop to show up on VNC, however I did get other tasks done and stable running. Also came across this post which is vital as the default install seems to want to give you a repo that 404s too much so before you start your tasks, after you install debian and get into it, do this stuff.
ZilverZurfarn said:
For those (like me) who get errors when apt-get'ing thightvncserver and/or lxde:
(from the thread at androidfanatic.com)
instructions
cd /etc/apt
nano sources.list
now add
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
after the first one
then hold down the trackball and hit o
then hit return (to save the new sources.list)
then hold the trackball and hit x (to exit nano)
then type
apt-get update
apt-get install tightvncserver
apt-get install lxde
That did the trick for me at least.
/Mats
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yeahhh
now my problem is that debian is restarted all time
error
chroot: can't change root directory to /data/local/mnt: No such file or director
y

Well While mine worked, sorta, I just went with the 1 click debian install thread, made life a lil easier. Heh.

[HOW-TO] apps2sd on n1 cyanmod

I thought since the cm5b4 thread is getting hard to navigate through that i would pull some helpful info out of it and make it in a seperate thread
I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR THE INFO BELOW, jerbarton should get credit for the procedure
As usual I'm not responsible for any problems you may encounter or broken phone, i also cant confirm if this works on any other rom's but cyans and there is no gurantee it will always work but here you go
EDIT:When updating to a new CM rom you WILL encounter a boot loop, simply run the steps below AGAIN during the loop cycle and then reboot the phone and it should work.
ALWAYS NANDROID!!
you will need to have an ext2 partition before this will work, i believe you can make one with the "partition" option in recovery
Code:
adb remount
adb push 04apps2sd /system/etc/init.d/
adb push e2fsck /system/xbin
adb shell
chmod 755 /system/xbin/e2fsck
chmod 755 /system/etc/init.d/04apps2sd
mkdir /system/sd
Downloads:
e2fsck: http://www.mediafire.com/?tzwwjyz2t2r
04apps2sd: http://www.mediafire.com/?mjjntmtmjmj

Attempted this, and I've never once tried doing apps2sd. I dl'ed the files to the root of my SD card after partitioning the SD card to ext2. After this was done, I went to my terminal emulator, but all I get from the commands are "adb: not found"
What am I doing wrong?

heroskyy said:
Attempted this, and I've never once tried doing apps2sd. I dl'ed the files to the root of my SD card after partitioning the SD card to ext2. After this was done, I went to my terminal emulator, but all I get from the commands are "adb: not found"
What am I doing wrong?
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You have to get the android sdk kit on your computer and type in those commands from tools. Make sure those files are placed in your tools folder so it can find them(adb). Also need to hold down shift and right key to open up command in folder.

nonmindo said:
I thought since the cm5b4 thread is getting hard to navigate through that i would pull some helpful info out of it and make it in a seperate thread
I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR THE INFO BELOW, jerbarton should get credit for the procedure
AS usual I'm not responsible for any problems you may encounter or broken phone, i also cant confirm if this works on any other rom's but cyans and there is no gurantee it will always work but here you go
ALWAYS NANDROID!!
you will need to have an ext2 partition before this will work, i believe you can make one with the "partition" option in recovery
Code:
adb remount
adb push 04apps2sd /system/etc/init.d/
adb push e2fsck /system/xbin
adb shell
chmod 755 /system/xbin/e2fsck
chmod 755 /system/etc/init.d/04apps2sd
mkdir /system/sd
Downloads:
e2fsck: http://www.mediafire.com/?tzwwjyz2t2r
04apps2sd: http://www.mediafire.com/?mjjntmtmjmj
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Thanks for putting this up but your crediting wrong person. First and foremost Cyanogen(his script pulled from rom) Second, dhanj was the first to post the script on here and the other guy added to it( the one your giving credit too.) Go back and read original post.

kamasi36 said:
You have to get the android sdk kit on your computer and type in those commands from tools. Make sure those files are placed in your tools folder so it can find them(adb). Also need to hold down shift and right key to open up command in folder.
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awesome! thank you! Ive always been confused about that

heroskyy said:
awesome! thank you! Ive always been confused about that
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Ha. me too man. You have to learn fast on here. They expect us to know all this stuff coming in the gate. Just holla back if you need some more help. I'm a noob too but managed to figure it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
This might help you get started. make sure you get everything updated because this is kind of dated.

kamasi36 said:
Thanks for putting this up but your crediting wrong person. First and foremost Cyanogen(his script pulled from rom) Second, dhanj was the first to post the script on here and the other guy added to it( the one your giving credit too.) Go back and read original post.
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Yeah cyanogen (especially) and dhanj should be credited more than me. I didn't really do anything but add on how I got it working for me.
One thing to mention, if cyanogen doesn't implement this officially in his ROM (and for most people it's probably not needed) you'll have to redo this procedure each time you flash/update so I'd suggest keeping the 2 files saved.

@nonmindo...thanks for posting this, I've been meaning to put something together but had a handful of things going on.
In any case, I was also hesitant on starting a new thread about this because of the apps2sd, need or not to need discussion that's been going on. Anyway, I'm glad you did post this and glad that there are others asides from myself(kamasi, jerbarton, t0pgun & dscottjr81 that I know of!) who chose to get this up and running on their nexus one.
As for who get's credit, I certainly cannot take any credit for this because all I did was share information. The real credit goes to cyanogen and the great devs we have here on xda that made our toys even more enjoyable that it was stock.
Edit:
Regarding the second(ext) partition that's created when you partition your sd card using RA-nexus-v1.5.3 recovery, there isn't a menu option to upgrade your partition to ext3, unlike other versions of Amon_Ra's custom recovery for the HTC Dream: G1.
Regardless, of this you can always go back into the recovery, hook up your phone to your pc, open up command prompt and type in the following commands:
Code:
adb shell
sdparted -ufs ext3

dnanj said:
@nonmindo...thanks for posting this, I've been meaning to put something together but had a handful of things going on.
In any case, I was also hesitant on starting a new thread about this because of the apps2sd, need or not to need discussion that's been going on. Anyway, I'm glad you did post this and glad that there are others asides from myself(kamasi, jerbarton, t0pgun & dscottjr81 that I know of!) who chose to get this up and running on their nexus one.
As for who get's credit, I certainly cannot take any credit for this because all I did was share information. The real credit goes to cyanogen and the great devs we have here on xda that made our toys even more enjoyable that it was stock.
Edit:
Regarding the second(ext) partition that's created when you partition your sd card using RA-nexus-v1.5.3 recovery, there isn't a menu option to upgrade your partition to ext3, unlike other versions of Amon_Ra's custom recovery for the HTC Dream: G1.
Regardless, of this you can always go back into the recovery, hook up your phone to your pc, open up command prompt and type in the following commands:
Code:
adb shell
sdparted -ufs ext3
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Thanks dnanj. Just upgraded to ext. 3. apps2sd b4 now.

You betcha....as always, just sharing information whenever I can.

am i suppose to get a conformation in shell if the commands worked?

Ohal_yeah said:
am i suppose to get a conformation in shell if the commands worked?
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When the commands complete, you should be brought back to the prompt where the shell awaits the next command.

I apologize for not looking deeper into who deserves credit here, thanks for those of you that do know!! I was simply just trying to make it easier to get the information to people that might want it...
as for the debate of needing a2sd or not, i was out of space right from the get-go because of all the apps i had on my mt3g...so to me i definitely need it out of the 1gb partition i made on my sd card i have .82 free now lol...

completed all steps but everything still saves to internal memory

JustinLoe said:
completed all steps but everything still saves to internal memory
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a small glitch probably when you run the last command before adb reboot, it fails to create the directory as it exists, probably change the name to solve it, it happened to me once

dnanj said:
@nonmindo...thanks for posting this, I've been meaning to put something together but had a handful of things going on.
Edit:
Regarding the second(ext) partition that's created when you partition your sd card using RA-nexus-v1.5.3 recovery, there isn't a menu option to upgrade your partition to ext3, unlike other versions of Amon_Ra's custom recovery for the HTC Dream: G1.
Regardless, of this you can always go back into the recovery, hook up your phone to your pc, open up command prompt and type in the following commands:
Code:
adb shell
sdparted -ufs ext3
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hi, what does the code has anything to do with app2sd? anyone cares to shed some lights to a newcomer?
TIA

jakontil said:
hi, what does the code has anything to do with app2sd? anyone cares to shed some lights to a newcomer?
TIA
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ext3 is essentially a ext2 file system with journaling.
Click Here to read about ext3 and it's benefits over an ext2 fs. As to why ext2 over ext3 for apps2sd, since journaling improves reliability of the fs, that makes it more ideal than ext2.

it works great thanks!

hi dnanj
thanks for the link

sorry but im stuck here
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb remount
remount succeeded
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push 04apps2sd /system/etc/init.d/
failed to copy '04apps2sd' to '/system/etc/init.d/': Is a directory
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>
why does cmd show me this error can you help me out please..very much appreciated

Lost Root? Really Stuck on this one..

So I flashed SuperD yesterday, and all is cool. Its not my first time using roms, and everything went smooth.
But then today I wanted to change the keyboard layout back to the German layout. So I went to Terminal Emulator and began to edit the layout using this method (tested, working from these forums)
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
cp /sdcard/trout-keypad-v3.kcm.bin /system/usr/keychars
Anyway, once I finished, it said that this operation isnt possible. Then I realized that I forgot to put the file on sd card. So I added the file, but then the strange part came....
I then again went into terminal emulator and typed "su" to start the process again but now im getting the "permission denied error! 5 min ago I didnt have this error and could mount just fine! The phone is running fine, but it seems like I ve lost root.
Do I need to reflash the rom or the spl to reverse this? I really just need access to Terminal again. Anyone know how to fix this? I tried rebooting just to see if it was some type of bug, but even after reboot Im still getting permission denied.
Could really use some help on this!

Use adb shell. Try clearing the saved options in the SU application. Try a different terminal program. Lastly, try to just reflash the rom.

evilkorn said:
Use adb shell. Try clearing the saved options in the SU application. Try a different terminal program. Lastly, try to just reflash the rom.
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I installed a new Terminal, and it seems to work fine. Might seem like a dumb question, but Im really not sure if I have root or not?!

If it worked what's the question?

evilkorn said:
If it worked what's the question?
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Your right. Was a dumb question. It just confused me, as one terminal is giving me access, and another wont. Guess its just a bug.
Anyway, I reflashed the rom, and all is perfect. Thanks for the help though guys.

Apps missing and won't let me re-install

something weird happened on my phone when I installed the SuperD 1.9.3 rom. I've never had this problem before, so see if you can help me. I installed Chompsms and Acontacts amongst a variety of other apps. Well, I was texting earlier, when my phone froze. No biggy, I popped the battery out, placed it back in, and turned it on. Well I got the green boxes in place of the the logos for Chomp and Acontacts. I clicked on them and it said that the apps weren't installed? um, ok. I have aps2sd with ext3, so I figure something must have corrupted the file, no biggy, I'll just redownload it. So I go to the market, and it says the program is installed. I click on the program to try to reinstall, and the bottom where it says "open, uninstall" are greyed out. So the app isn't installed, but it is, so I can't uninstall and re-install. Anyone, help please? I really use these 2 apps!

Delete the apk's from /system/sd/

It also sounds like your marketdb file is still there too. I've had this problem with Backup for root users. It'll import the marketdb but sometimes it won't import the APK's. So that leaves you with no apps and the market seeing that you already have it. I'm trying to find where the program is pulling that file, and i'll let you know. If anyone else knows where it's at feel free to jump in.

nolimit78 said:
If anyone else knows where it's at feel free to jump in.
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/data/data/ I think.

evilkorn said:
/data/data/ I think.
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That's what I was thinking but I didn't see it there...
While Im still looking for that file, you could also do the following:
Code:
Use switchrom and save your rom
flash a new rom
download the apks that are giving you problems (if its not too many)
use linda to save the apks to your SD card
switchrom back to the old rom
download and use linda to install the apks you saved.
It's not pretty but it'll get the job done.

Had a little time to look at the phone, did you try to delete the folder in /data/data/com.android.vending/?

Goto terminal emulator.
Type - mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system (enter)
Type - rm /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/* (enter)
Type - reboot (enter)
Words in bracket are instructions and not to be typed.

shadowch31 said:
Goto terminal emulator.
Type - mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system (enter)
Type - rm /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/* (enter)
Type - reboot (enter)
Words in bracket are instructions and not to be typed.
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yeah I found that it was in the vending/databases folder, I just hadn't had time to post until now. Good job!

i had the same problem and it worked...at first the terminal emulator went like 'are you root' and im like whaaat...i have cynogen 4.2.14.1...so had to type su before the 3 lines of codes...it worked

Status Bar Hack for Nookie-Froyo - Help Please

I want to get this hack for my status bar...I attempted with the 2gb Nookie install, and realized that the 8gb was better for my 16gb card (since there's no 16gb version available as of now). The 2gb hack had the status bar buttons, the 8gb one does not.
The version of the hack currently is for versions of Nookie that are flashed to the eMMC (which I have no idea how to do). Brian said something about copying the files, but I can't seem to figure out what to do here...can someone offer some input please? Thanks!

anybody? please help.

no one can help?

piercenkc said:
no one can help?
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Do you have adb installed? I don't have the adb command now. It is I'm my home computer.
Google nookie froyo. You can install adb. I can post the instruction when I am home.
It seems to be the easiest way for me.

I just got adb installed. Let me know what the command is whenever you get home - I appreciate your help! Thanks!

I have my adb install in c:\tools. Please replace it with whatever your directory is.
Backup your sdcard first - make sure you do this....
Extract the new zip file to a directory. My dir is c:\tools\temp\
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system
adb push c:\tools\temp\system system/
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /data
adb push c:\tools\temp\data data/
Start Rom Manager->Fix Permissions
Reboot
It works for me. I am sure there are better ways, but this is what I did.
If anyone who know adb commands. Please feel free to provide another suggestion.

awesome, that definitely worked!
i think i liked the bar better up top though...will i have to do that whole process again with a different version of the hack?

I know there are fixes in each update. I would not used the older one unless I know what was changed.

I loaded the 3/22 last night and still had the FCs with stock browser. The 3/23 update works great. Now, just waiting for the reverse colors...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=999214

I will check out the new buttons tonight.