K5 Debian on Paperwhite [video]

[twobob]

Dithyr would make mplayer movies now work out of the box as well..

[Bagerfahrer]

Hey guys,
I am really enjoying to try to have debian on my Kindle Paperwhite but is isn't simple for me as a noob. I made 'sudo multistrap -a armel -d multistrap-debian-sid -f SID/simple-config' and had successfully created the debian.ext3 file. What I have to do now? Must I move the filesystem what was created from multistrap to the mounted debian.ext3 file?

EDIT: Ohh i found out that I have to create the filesystem in the mounted debian.ext3 file but it would be no problem when I move the filesystem afterward in the mounted debian.ext3?

EDIT²: Yes it is okay. I red all posts again... ^^
What I have exactly mount from /mnt/debian/ to /? Maybe only these?

mount -o bind /dev /mnt/debian/dev
mount -o bind /dev/pts /mnt/debian/dev/pts
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/debian/proc
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/debian/sys

And which parameters I need to install the .deb files in /mnt/debian/ and not maybe in /? So what i have to do after i mounted debian.ext3 to /mnt/debian?

[twobob]

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=20
and
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=35
were my efforts.

[Bagerfahrer]

Originally Posted by twobob

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=20
and
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=35
were my efforts.

Yea, this thread was really helpful but there s no more instruction what to do after succesfully mounting. How I install these .deb files exactly? Or what to bind to /? There is an wiki entry but there is no information about how to install the .deb files correctly.

[twobob]

What .deb files?

dpkg --force-depends -i /root/libmokoui2-0_0.3+bzr20080630-0ubuntu4_armel.deb
apt-get --no-install-recommends -f install

dpkg -i /root/matchbox-desktop_2.0-4.1_armel.deb

dpkg --force-depends -i /root/matchbox-desktop_2.0-4.1_armel.deb
apt-get --no-install-recommends -f install

dpkg --force-depends -i /root/matchbox-panel-2_0.9.3-8_armel.deb
apt-get --no-install-recommends -f install

dpkg -i /root/matchbox-keyboard_0.1+svn20121101+really20080916-1_armel.deb

dpkg -i /root/matchbox-keyboard-im_0.1+svn20121101+really20080916-1_armel.deb

read post 36+37... not "required"!

[Bagerfahrer]

Nice one... ^^

I wouldn't answer if there is no problem...
When I press 'apt-get --no-install-recommends -f install' then my Kindle stopped under 100%. You can write only things like C^ and so on. The Kindle still alive and I can close the terminal only via menu. After that i can't reopen kterm and if the Kindle goes to sleep mode then you can't wake the Kindle up anymore. In my opinion it is overloaded but why i can close the terminal and can write weird things then?
I can't chroot on VMware because VMware doesn't support arm distribution, or???
Could only created successfully the .ext3 file and put Debian on it but I can't install the .deb files on VMware nor on the Kindle.

[knc1]

Use a Linux LiveCD not VMware.

[Bagerfahrer]

Originally Posted by knc1

Use a Linux LiveCD not VMware.

Which one you would recommend me?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Bagerfahrer

Which one you would recommend me?

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

You only need the CD version - not the DVD version -
Burn to CD -
Boot -
Follow directions to transfer to write-able media (flash drive, cf disk, whatever) -
If you machine can't boot from that same write-able media - then also download the "CD boot" disk - which lets the computer boot from the cd and will then boot from the write-able media.

[Bagerfahrer]

removed

[Bagerfahrer]

Yay, I have Debian on my Kindle.
(I chrooted Debian with qemu)

The only problem is that when I start launch-debian.sh that the coming screen stay black but the titlebar is available and I can press on it to open the extended titlebar to go home or somethings else.

My silly question is what can I do now???
I really have to say thanks to you guys for the done work here.

[twobob]

apt-get install "something"

Mate I remember that you cant do screenshots easily... ??

But honestly a screen-shot would go a long to helping you now.

[Bagerfahrer]

There is not much to see... but i upload it for you that you can see it.
Something will loaded but what would I see when it was successful?
Maybe the better question is how can I correct this mistake?

[twobob]

OOOh... errr... um... good question? thinking on that.

[Bagerfahrer]

What would be the problem? Which part of matchbox is it and maybe I should apt-get update & upgrade? Don't know what is the problem there...

Maybe I should first think and then write my questions.