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.