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bggo edited this page Jan 25, 2012 · 7 revisions

If your in this page, you choose to install DepTop using the Normal Method that consists basically in those steps:

  1. Root Your Phone;
  2. Partitioning SD Card;
  3. Download DebTop Software;
  4. Download DebTop Images;
  5. Copying files to the right place;
  6. Execute the installation script;
  7. Freedom for you Atrix;

Root Your Phone

There are loots of ways to do that but we recommend:

Partitioning SD Card

Pay attention to this step, we will only support above partition methods:

  • Internal memory;
  • A SD Card fully formated in FAT;
  • A SD Card part FAT part ext2

For your convenience try to partitioning your SD Card using a system tool like cfdisk, fdisk, Disk Utility or something like that

Download Debtop Software

You can get DebTop using this url, or find it`s download link in the project;

Download DebTop Images

We still don`t have a ready image to download, soon we will decide were to upload the files;

Copying files to the right place

  1. Extract the DebTop Software anyware:

$tar xzvf bggo-DebTop-e31e0e6.tar.gz

  1. Inside the tarball you will find the installer directory, make a directory called DebTop in the root of your SDCard and copy it to there:

`$mkdir /media/YOURSDCARD/DebTop

$cp -a installer /media/YOURSDCARD/DebTop/`

  1. Last step is to copy the image you choose inside your card in the DepTop folder, so:

$cp IMAGEYOUCHOOSE.img /media/YOURSDCARD/DebTop/linuxdisk

Make sure the name of image in the sdcard is "linuxdisk"

Im sure youll understand that all of this steps can be executed in the Graphical Interface too.

Execute the installation script

You can do it in a lot of different ways and you only need a root terminal in your phone, for exemple SSHDroid. But you can do it just using an app like Terminal Emulator, or ConnectBot;

So, using SSHDroid, start a SSH server in your phone:

SSHDroid Use 'root' on rooted devices otherwise any username works Default password is 'admin'

The message above will appear, just use admin as password to lo-gin as root:

Now that your in, you'll need to do:

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