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First, let's talk peripherals.
If you haven't yet, I'd highly recommend buying one of these reduced size MMC cards, so you can boot from MMC and have plenty of space for data. This will also give you an easy way to revert to the untouched system.
1 gig
2 gig
You may also want to purchase a bluetooth GPS unit (I have instructions on this below):
Garmin GPS10 (sensor only) @ 118.62 shipped, the Deluo GPS @ 112.72 shipped, or the Deluo GPS with DVD @ 114.76. I've heard good things about both of these, but for your own peace of mind, as they are somewhat expensive (although about the lowest prices you'll find for this quality) buying from Amazon makes returns relatively painless. If you want a cheaper option, Geeks.com has some great prices on two units.
And if you want to connect USB devices to the 770, like a keyboard or storage device (external drive, memory stick, etc), follow my directions here.
On to the software
The information that was here has been replaced with a guide I'm writing (as I advance through using the 770); any feedback would be appreciated:
http://examplified.net/guide/Nokia_770/
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Cool, thanks for this guide. I'm a Linux newbie that just got my hands on a 770 and need someone to walk me through some of the basics. Please keep up the effort and continue to add to your guide!
Will do. Anything you want to see, in particular?
"Go to the Application Manager Menu, then Tools/Application Catalog.... Click New, then enter:"
When I got to the application manager, it has "Catalog" as a heading under which are two buttons "install new applications " and "check for updates" - I cannot find the 'New' interface where you enter the 'web address', etc.
what should I do differently?
Ah, it's in the menu (just updated the post). So, when you're in Application Manager, if you click the menu button (or the down arrow near the title), you'll see Package, View, Tools, Close. Select "Tools" then "Application Catalog..."
Let me know if that helps.
I feel so silly - I figured it out before I saw your post. But now I have another problem the becomeroot file doesnt install completely - it is a 2.2MB size under new applications. I looked at the details after the partial install - it says its broken. Im stuck.
Let's get you unstuck then. First, did you try going to "Show installed applications" in Application Manager and uninstalling it? Does it list as "Installed"? It should be 2kb. I'm on AIM/Google/Yahoo as "DealMinded", if you need real-time help.
It did show in the installed applications - but as a partial install, the blocks were red. Since it showed, I went to the Xterm window and tried the 'sudo gainroot.' It didnt work it said to go into RD mode for it to work.
I then uninstalled. It prompts that it is unable to uninstall, however becomeroot does not show as an installed application now. So looks like it uninstalled.
I then refreshed package list again. Tried to install, but it again does the same thing.
Try, apt-get install becomeroot
I think you need to be root for this to work though.
The easiest thing to do would be to reflash and start again - it would probably take less time.
How do you reflash?
Thanks.
Jeff,
How about a newbie (aka Plain English) guide to installing IT2007 Hacker Addition and IT2006 on the same unit?
Reflashing is at the beginning of the software section of this article.
Sure, I've been meaning to install IT2007, anyway. I'll post back here when I'm done.
Got another request for ya....how about a guide to configuring RealVNC and VNC Viewer? The RealVNC website doesn't do too well at providing step-by-step info on how to use the service.
You mind throwing me a link? Just got a booting from MMC tutorial done. If you're interested, this is another one of my sites I'm working on. The newest stuff is there:
http://examplified.net/guide/Nokia_770/
I'm working on inline feedback at the moment, but you can leave me any messages about it here.
www.realvnc.com. RealVNC seems to be the VNC program of choice at internettablettalk.com. Saw your tutorial on installing SSH...pairing that with RealVNC would be a great mix to make the connection secure
I'm trying to partion my new 2gb card so that I can boot from it. I'm following http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howt...from_mmc_card/ I can get to root, but when I type # apt-get install e2fsprogs, it says e2fsprogs and a couple other files can't be authenticated. I said yes to install without verification, but I get a 404 not found for several files.
I am very much a novice at this, and haven't a clue what to do from here. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
I had the same problem. It seems the "mistral" repository is being made obsolete. Check out a page I'm testing:
http://examplified.net/guide/Nokia_770/ … _from_MMC/
Thanks. I figured out that the rootstrap 'gregale' works better than the old 'mistral'.
I appreciate your help with this. I have now progressed to:
/dev/mmcblk0p1: 1,15000,6
/dev/mmcblk0p2: 15001,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3:
/dev/mmcblk0p4:
It is giving a warning that no primary partition is marked bootable. This does not matter for LILO but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk. Do you want to write this to disk? (YNQ) Not sure what to do here. Thanks again.
MMC boot procedure: Everything went smothly till I got to the
tar-temp/bin/tar cf - -C /floppy . | /tar-temp/bin/tar xvf - -C /opt
command. It started copying & scrolling so I left it alone and came back about 15 min. later. Now it's stuck on:
./usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/osso-contact-plugin.mo
It's been on this line for over 30 min now.
Now what? I followed all the other instructions exactly. I have a 2 GB card.
OK, you'll need to erase everything on the 2nd partition and the tar pipe again.
So, type (becareful with this one!!):
rm -rf /dev/mmcblk0p2/*
Then:
/tar-temp/bin/tar cf - -C /floppy . | /tar-temp/bin/tar xvf - -C /opt
and continue on.
Make sure you have all of your applications closed. Do you have the language of your 770 set as German, by chance?
I followed the directions for Booting from MMC. I don't remember what happened after the copying command (/tar-temp/bin/tar cf - -C /floppy . | /tar-temp/bin/tar xvf - -C /opt), but I was back at the # prompt in a second or two. I did the umount(s) and rebooted. I got a boot menu with four choices. Two of them were for MMC2 or MMC3. It would not boot from either, so I booted from flash, which it did fine. Now, I no longer get the boot menu. When I go into Control Panel and memory and it shows 466,1MB available.
I'm not sure where I'm at. What do you recommend I try next?
Thanks.
Well, apparently I was typing the copy command incorrectly. I copy/pasted it and it copied. I can now boot from the card. I can't say anything appears to happen any faster, but I'm glad I tried to do it. Thus is all very new to me, and this was a nice way to start playing with this device.
Thanks.
Good to hear; let me know if you do anything else fun on the 770 or need help with something.
I set up to boot from MMC card following your directions at ;
http://examplified.net/guide/Nokia_770/ … _from_MMC/
Is there a way to get it to boot from MMC2 by default - for now when it boots I have to catch it to go into boot menu and select MMC2 - if I miss doing that it boots from flash.
Thanks.
I sort of fixed booting from mmc2 by running the following :
# chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask:mmc2
it now goes to the boot menu, everytime without having to catch it before it boots from flash. Which works fine for me.
I'll add that in there - thanks! I thought the bootmenu.conf file had it set as the default.
Doing anything else fun on the 770 lately?
I tethered the 770 to my cell phone which is nice to dial out for web access on the road. I plan to put maemo mapper on next. How 'bout you? Thanks for all the help.
I noticed the new repository doesn't have the mapper on it anymore.
Anyway... the tethering with my cingular phone (8125) worked... but I think I may need to turn off the sync. It seems that it cannot connect if my phone is syncing... maybe only the phone or the 770 can use the data connection at one time?
One issue I had... and it really was me. I was following instructions for the MMC formatting.. and I didn't notice the change in prompt... so I was typing the prompt as well as the commands for formatting.. which were, of course, erroring. I know you can't make anything idiot proof. But perhaps putting the part you actually type in bold.. to differentiate it from the prompt?
I would rather the MMC boot were default... I'm setting some of these up for friends and that would make it simpler for them to use. I'll look for that .conf file.
Me? i've only used linux machines for single purpose servers... web, mail relay, antispam, firewall... so I never really got into the guts. I have played with my Qube a bit.... good fun.
I installed a handful of games and plan to use it for remote access to do work stuff.. as well as just play. Hopefully I will stop carrying the laptop... so goes the plan.
Which repository?
Great idea; will do that now.
This is the simplest solution, although I thought the sample conf file had it set as default:
chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask:mmc2
What software have you used for mail relay? Qube?
Any must have 770 software/games that you've seen so far?
Good question... I've rebuilt it enough times that I'm not sure anymore. I think some of the repositories I've used have software for both the 770 and 800. I need to start keeping track of the repositories.. and why I added them.. or what I wanted from them. I'm stuck with something (hildon panel navigator applet) half installed right now that came from one of the repositories... and it shows up as an error on apt-get and no further installations work from the app manager or apt-get. I may just rebuild it again. It doesn't take that long and I have no important data on it yet.
sendmail.... with a bit of tinkering to seal it up. Spamassasin is the current project. From what I can tell, amany companies that do spam filtering are actually using spam assasin.
The qube? It has been just for fun. It looks neat. I have it set back to (mostly) factory specs. I'm running Qube2 software on it (a Qube 1). I may need to revisit it now that debian is an easy install. http://www.cyrius.com/debian/cobalt/
For me... vnc viewer and rdesktop are at the top of the list. Maemo mapper and FB reader are next on the list... after that... GAIM for instant messaging. A newer browser and flash player would be nice. I haven't installed one yet.. but a ssh/telnet client is in my future.
I haven't decided how to integrate my virtual DVD and music collection into a remote controllable experience... but the 770 may have a role there too.