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Old 03-05-2012, 09:48 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by mattl View Post
I am very interested in running stock Debian on my Kindle Touch, without any of the Kindle software remaining.

From reading this forum, it seems that it is now possible to flash u-boot on the touch via the USB HID mode, and from there I should be able to boot Debian. Maybe I'm over simplifying things?

Has anyone considered this, and does anyone have any tips on next steps I could take?

I have jailbroken and have USB networking.
You might consider this instead of Debian:
http://archlinuxarm.org/

You can try Arch Linux as a LiveCD on your x86{,_64} machine:
http://www.archlinux.org/

Arch Linux is a "binary distribution" (like Debian is) built from the Gentoo source tree.
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