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2011-03-08 22:30:15
8 GB MicroSD
/usr/bin/nitdroid
/usr/bin/nitdroid-installer
Log file:
/home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/installer.log
Quit apt and the application manager.
Run nitdroid
nitdroid
It stops at:
Formatting /dev/mmcblk1p2 (ext3) ...
In the log file, I get:
/dev/mmcblk1p2 is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n)
Press y enter
Log file:
ERROR:1 mkfs.ext3 -m0 -L NITDroid /dev/mmcblk1p2
/dev/mmcblk1p2: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up
superblock
Install cfdisk
apt-get install cfdisk
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends in the final partial
cylinder
cfdisk doesnt work well, use sfdisk:
the only fdisk utility on the device is sfdisk. fdisk could be extracted from
Debian packages but it aligns partitions based on virtual harddisk cylinders
and not on flash blocks.
sfdisk --?
sfdisk: unrecognized option `--?'
sfdisk version 3.08 (aeb@cwi.nl, 040824) from util-linux-2.12r
Usage: sfdisk [options] device ...
device: something like /dev/hda or /dev/sda
useful options:
-s [or --show-size]: list size of a partition
-c [or --id]: print or change partition Id
-l [or --list]: list partitions of each device
-d [or --dump]: idem, but in a format suitable for later input
-i [or --increment]: number cylinders etc. from 1 instead of from 0
-uS, -uB, -uC, -uM: accept/report in units of sectors/blocks/cylinders/MB
-T [or --list-types]:list the known partition types
-D [or --DOS]: for DOS-compatibility: waste a little space
-R [or --re-read]: make kernel reread partition table
-N# : change only the partition with number #
-n : do not actually write to disk
-O file : save the sectors that will be overwritten to file
-I file : restore these sectors again
-v [or --version]: print version
-? [or --help]: print this message
dangerous options:
-g [or --show-geometry]: print the kernel's idea of the geometry
-G [or --show-pt-geometry]: print geometry guessed from the partition table
-x [or --show-extended]: also list extended partitions on output
or expect descriptors for them on input
-L [or --Linux]: do not complain about things irrelevant for Linux
-q [or --quiet]: suppress warning messages
You can override the detected geometry using:
-C# [or --cylinders #]:set the number of cylinders to use
-H# [or --heads #]: set the number of heads to use
-S# [or --sectors #]: set the number of sectors to use
You can disable all consistency checking with:
-f [or --force]: do what I say, even if it is stupid
sfdisk -d /dev/mmcblk1 > table
unit: sectors
/dev/mmcblk1p1 : start= 8192, size= 15515648, Id= b
/dev/mmcblk1p2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/mmcblk1p3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/mmcblk1p4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
New table:
unit: sectors
/dev/mmcblk1p1 : start= 8192, size= 11636736, Id= b
/dev/mmcblk1p2 : start= 11644928, size= 3870720, Id= 0
/dev/mmcblk1p3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/mmcblk1p4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
sfdisk --no-reread /dev/mmcblk1 < table
sfdisk -c /dev/mmcblk1 2 83
Reboot
Run nitdroid
nitdroid
Downloads: http://downloads.nitdroid.com/nitinstaller/Packages/
NitDroid-0.0.8-Popov.tar.bz2
70M = 20 minutes
Then 5 minutes:
Downloading oc-profile-500-700.tar.bz2 ...done
Downloading sensors-ril-patch-1.tbz2 ...done
Downloading fakegps.tar.bz2 ...done
Downloading nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb ...done
Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 ...done
Extracting NitDroid-0.0.8-Popov.tar.bz2 ...done
Extracting oc-profile-500-700.tar.bz2 ...done
Extracting sensors-ril-patch-1.tbz2 ...done
Extracting fakegps.tar.bz2 ...done
Installing nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb ...done
Unmounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 ...done
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It takes 2-3 minutes to boot the first time.