Tribulaciones.org » phone http://tribulaciones.org A blog about me and whatever insterests me Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:12:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Debian on Android phone http://tribulaciones.org/2009/01/debian-on-android-phone/ http://tribulaciones.org/2009/01/debian-on-android-phone/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:11:47 +0000 jsogo http://tribulaciones.org/?p=71 A Debian installer and boot loader for Android based phones has been released. It uses Debian ARM packages from standard repositories, so it makes available t you the full plethora of Debian packages. Also, as a bonus, you can still your phone as it was, an Android based device, with all its functionality.

Update: This entry was pending of an update since I read Joey Hess’ entry investigating into the supposed installer.
It seems that the .zip file is a complete disaster: it is a Debian chroot and 100MB of it are cached .deb files in /var and the init process is no more no less than a script that echoes some lines making you think that something is being booted and a last command (the only that actually makes something) is a mere chroot $mnt /bin/bash.
What does this mean? That you can run Debian in your Android phone by simply creating a chroot from your nearest Debian repository, and that’s all. No need of any supposed installer, just run debootstrap on the phone.

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