OpenSUSE 11.2

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NOTE: This is just an initial install and does have problems yet


What you need?

  • VMware/Virtualbox
  • openSUSE CD/DVD/ISO
  • Memory stick/card

How to install onto USB stick

  • Plugin your usb memory stick into the computer
  • First create a new virtual image - 512mb of RAM, openSUSE as the operating system, and set the disk you want to use as the memory stick.
  • Set the image to boot from the CD/DVD/ISO
  • Follow the setup process for the install
  • When you come to creating partition setup, create the first primary partition to be 100mb FAT16 and the rest as ext2.
  • Do NOT install a boot loader and complete the rest of the setup
  • Now shutdown the virtual machine and mount the USB flash onto your PC - copy the EFI bootloader onto the 100mb partition, setup the grub.cfg file to reflect your partition setup (i.e. change /dev/sdaX to match your USB sticks install of openSUSE)
  • Next copy both the initrd* files to the 100mb partition and replace the existing ones, also copy the vmlinuz* files to the 100mb partition (you probably need to be root do to this on your PC).
  • Now plugin the USB to your Joggler and away you go!

Known Issues

  • Brightness, WLAN, H/W acceleration does not seem to work.
  • Some colour corruption (connected to graphics chip I guess)
  • Shutting down and restarting messes up the partition - so you can't boot from the USB again until you FSCK.

Other

  • It's likely wireless, brightness and H/W acceleration will be an easy fix simply by installing drivers.
  • Still in development stages - not production ready.