Linux on 7" mini netbook ARM-VT8500 ?

[PrFaas]

Could anyone point me where '

http://s0.blackmage.co.uk/~nextvolume/via_arm/index.php

has moved to?

Could well be that i've missed the announcement that it has moved, or that there is something 'nasty' between 'me' and the site, but i get 'no contact' with it from 'here'; My error message is:

An error occurred while loading http://s0.blackmage.co.uk/~nextvolum...arm/index.php:
Could not connect to host s0.blackmage.co.uk.

[nextvolume]

blackmage.co.uk didn't appear very reliable so I moved the forums to another server back in May. Until some time ago when blackmage.co.uk had not changed their servers' operating system yet I had a working redirection to the new location:

http://devio.us/~nextvolume/via_arm

tinyurl.com/easypc-forum should be not used anymore (I tried to make the tinyurl admin change the redirection, but he did not want to despite me giving him proof)

Go to the place on devio.us... www.bento-linux.org (or the #easypc IRC channel on FreeNode) is the stablest place you're going to get when you want a link to the forums (in case they move again, hehe).

[kirbyparufo]

Please I have a question of this netbooks, I bougth a 7" netbook with VIA ARM-920 266 Mhz processor and 256 mb of ram but I can't find a linux for this tipe of processor, can anyone help me with a link? or the distribuition for wm-8505 and vt-8500 can be installed in my netbook?

Thanks.

I can't provide any links, if they exist, but I can tell you that there is no way the distros for WM-8505 or VT-8500 will work on your processor. In fact, they'll probably brick your system if you attempt to use them, so be careful.

[mstation]

Can you enter the console (just hit Enter) and grab the output of the following:

 ls /dev/mmcblk0* 
ls /mnt/mmcblk0*

If you find your partition (eg. as mmcblk0p1) you should be able to

 mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/sd 
mount /dev/mtdblock9 /mnt/mtd 
tar xzf /mnt/sd/extpart.tgz -C /mnt/mtd

which will complete your install.

hello.. just a quick question..

when i mount /dev/mtdblock9 /mnt/mtd i get this:

yaffs: dev is 32505865 name is "mtdblock9"
yaffs: passed flags ""
yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 31.9, "mtdblock9"
yaffs: auto selecting yaff2
block 3475 is bad
block 3476 is bad
block 3477 is bad
block 3478 is bad
yaffs_read_super: isCheckpointed 0

and i can't procede with the extracting of the extpart.tgz

[elMagnate]

Hello.

I was looking about the extra-cheap minilaptop/smartbook of $40 herehttp://cgi.ebay.com/7-Mini-Laptop-Ne...ht_6321wt_1137. That directed me to this post of the ubuntu forums. I'm i bit lost with these staff.

With that smartbook can i install anything apart of windows CE? The ARM processor matches with the requirments. Can i install Android or just bento/easypc linux distro? Can i install google chrome OS or Ubuntu netbook remix? Can i actualize android 1.5 to a newer version?

Thank you in advance.

[vinceCOOK]

Hello

www.bento-linux.org

can anybody get this website working?...the FORUM link does nothing.

thanks

Vince.

[lokirx706]

hello.. just a quick question..

when i mount /dev/mtdblock9 /mnt/mtd i get this:

yaffs: dev is 32505865 name is "mtdblock9"
yaffs: passed flags ""
yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 31.9, "mtdblock9"
yaffs: auto selecting yaff2
block 3475 is bad
block 3476 is bad
block 3477 is bad
block 3478 is bad
yaffs_read_super: isCheckpointed 0

and i can't procede with the extracting of the extpart.tgz

I have the same problem, I have to manually mount the SD card every time because it cannot find it. I also have gotten to a point where I can extract the contents of extpart.tgz however I get outputs of

"tar: short read"
"tar: invalid tar magic"
"Segmentation fault"
and other times it actually reads but aborts before finishing the memory map.

I have yet to complete the install.... Any help is much appreciated!

[Karasik]

Join the previous message. The problem with the archive section for ext. Please give a working archive. Thanks in advance.

[fauxhawk18]

I have the same problem, I have to manually mount the SD card every time because it cannot find it. I also have gotten to a point where I can extract the contents of extpart.tgz however I get outputs of

"tar: short read"
"tar: invalid tar magic"
"Segmentation fault"
and other times it actually reads but aborts before finishing the memory map.

I have yet to complete the install.... Any help is much appreciated!

ok, i registered just for this. i Have read every page and entry since page one, and thought to add this. I was having problems installing this linux, it would tell be the sd card could not be found. Couldnt find anything helping me. So i tried locking the sd card with the lock switch on the side, and that worked, let me install right away

[PrFaas]

Ref previous post: a bit of a silly question...

Can you *write* to the sd-card now?

My reason for asking is the following: An SD-card 'connector' (the thing you stuff your SD-card into) has two switches. One is normally used to detect *if* the card is present, the other is normally used to detect the state of the write-protect switch.

I'm slowly getting the notion that -in the driver and/or hardware- these two switches might have gotten 'swapped'.

That would explain why -with write-protect- the card is detected, and with write-enable the card is not detected. Assuming that to be the case, I'm curious what the interpretation of the switch that is normally the card-detect (now write-protect) will be...