yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color Android Development] devastatorx:
It does, right now its a little wonky so the manual config will be needed, i also updated the changelog to reflect that.

Currently this is running on the nookie froyo kernel. You can replace the uImage, although I'm not sure if that will fix BT at the moment. Currently I'm focusing on the natty file system so the build is up to date.

Honestly, the people that fight the battle with cancer are the real superstars, and the people that donate to the charities that help fund research and assistance. We have a great community and I think that we (the dev team) are just glad to be able to contribute to it

Will update OP with instructions for various wireless network security settings here in a few hours...not at home at the moment.

-devx
[Nook Color Android Development] VitaZora:
I just tried this out with my Nook Color and WOW!

It seems almost ready for prime time!

After boot up I was able to connect to WEP wifi, with no pre-boot edits to any files, although the signal/connection dropped periodically. I just booted up and selected my wifi connection, entered the password and BAM!

Not able to fully shut down though - just goes into a reboot loop.

But I am totally impressed :D.
[Nook Color Android Development] celticchrys:
I think this is gonna be what I use my spare sd card for! Thanks for the great work.
[Nook Color Android Development] bradputt:
i'm stuck on this, waited for over 30mins and my terminal is stuck

are there any message when the copy is complete???
[Nook Color Android Development] Link3737:
I must be doing something wrong, because I can't boot past the flashing 'android_' screen (The "Couple of minutes" has extended to about half an hour)

When I attempt to connect through ADB and get a log of what's happening, I get "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: Permission Denied (13)" (root of the problem?)

The only part I wasn't 100% sure I'd done right was copying the contents of 'system' to /media/Angstrom.

I copied all the folders/files inside system (Giving me /media/Angstrom/bin/, etc.), but at this point I'm not sure if I was supposed to copy the system folder directly instead (Giving me /media/Angstrom/system/bin/, etc.)

As always, your help is appreciated :p

Edit: Definitely had it right the first time with /media/Angstrom/bin, etc. Not sure what the problem is now.
[Nook Color Android Development] prehistorical:
Yes be patient...

Yes, when devx said to go grab a drink, I thought he meant in the refrigerator. I dind't know he meant hop in the car, drive and get a drink! :D
[Nook Color Android Development] devastatorx:
The time to copy the file system will vary by uSD class, it does take awhile, there is no completion message it will just return you to a prompt on the terminal.

@Link3737

Bad download maybe? MD5: bfe2206fbfd7f402cd1c95c61b13dc83

After connecting to the adb shell can you issue startx as a command? Although you shouldn't have to.

Also updated OP with md5 for both files.
[Nook Color Android Development] Link3737:
Thanks for the MD5s, they both checked out.

If I leave everything untouched, I can't get past a blinking android_ screen.

Edit: Ran 'sudo chmod -R +rwx /media/Angstrom/*' (Definitely not a wise thing to do), and was able to finally get it working.

Full recap of my issue (In case I'm not the only one):

Copying files over left everything inaccessible (Normal?), but as a result the device wouldn't boot past android_.

Using 'sudo cp -rp', even, would not keep original modes for files.
[Nook Color Android Development] devastatorx:
Copying the files over will change the permissions, i think due to the way we are copying them over (via sudo to make sure all files are copied over) what size SD card do you have? I have an 8gig, I will make an image of it and get it uploaded which should fix your problems (and allow anyone not using a linux miachine to give NookBuntu a try) Link will be up later tonight, currently copying my new Natty file system to SD for first boot run.
[Nook Color Android Development] bandroidx:
I didnt flash yet because I think I need a faster uSD card. I have a lexar class 4 4gb card and I loaded HC sd the newer one and it runs like crap, I think the sd card is t he reason ebcasue people say its fast, and mine is super slow. So i am thinking it will ruin the experience. Is class 6 or 10 recommended?
[Nook Color Android Development] gulthex:
any news on a flashable/burnable sd card?

any news on a flashable/burnable sd card?

that i can burn via winimage?
[Nook Color Android Development] devastatorx:
Got busy today, compressing now, will upload after work tomorrow. Note that this will be for 8gb cards or greater as all I have are 8gb and 16gb cards. I will let you know when it's up and update the OP with a link and instructions.
[Nook Color Android Development] devastatorx:
I have the img file compressed and ready, just need somewhere to upload it. Size is 1.8gigs, if anyone is willing....let me know

-devx
[Nook Color Android Development] gulthex:
upload it to dropbox. you get 2gb or 5gb free. i forgot wich 1. either way it still works.
[Nook Color Android Development] Backwardsblade:
I suggest a torrent for something that size. I'd seed if I had the img.

Spg
[Nook Color Android Development] stevemp:
I would seed also, at least 50 g a month.
[Nook Color Android Development] joenathane:
I will provide my seed also!
[Nook Color Android Development] sassafras_:
I hope you meant it to sound like that.

Otherwise, gross.

sassafras
[Nook Color Android Development] marlonbr:
Wow! Definitely going to try that!
[Nook Color Android Development] taylor.fowler:
Sh!t just got weird in here..... ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] deadbot1:
Just like the army...don't ask...don't tell....
[Nook Color Android Development] chesh420:
Sorry to semi-hijack the thread here, but do you suppose that using a variation of these instructions it'd be possible to use Backtrack 5 ARM edition? If so, how would one go about to doing it? Backtrack has been based on Ubuntu since version 4 and they've released a version for the ARM architecture as of version 5. There's already instructions for running it on a Xoom tablet in a chroot'd environment, but I'm wondering if it could be run native like this does. You can find the download for BT5 here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ What'ya guys think?

Edit: Sorry, did a Google search after posting (I know, bad form), and found this: http://denniskuntz.com/blog/2011/05/11/backtrack-5-on-the-nook-color/ Anyway, I'll leave that here for anyone that's interested in another flavor of Ubuntu.
[Nook Color Android Development] bled82:
I would also like to see that happen . You should be able to regular ubuntu process to run backtrack via the vnc method , which from what I have seen is almost the same as this since it boot android then ubuntu with x11 or at least looks like it try replacing the system files with the back track ones and I think it will work ill try it after the holidays if no one else
[Nook Color Android Development] joenathane:
I mean what I say, especially when it comes to my seed, super seed!
[Nook Color Android Development] javip:
i did a test using the vnc / chroot'd method a few days ago on my nc with phiremod.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13947701#post13947701

there are some issues (particularly with screen resolution). the main thing missing from bt5 using this method is hardware access. bt is so much more than just wireless penetration testing - but that is the one thing not possible in a chroot'd environment since ubuntu does not have access to the hardware.

once ubuntu get's running natively on android - then it's a whole different story. i would love to use bt5 on my nc while working with my clients.
[Nook Color Android Development] Zorkman:
has anyone taken a look at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=987740 ?

seems to be a very easy install method btw
[Nook Color Android Development] chesh420:
Check your x.org.conf file and see what resolution it's setting in there. It could also be your LCD density settings.

Also, why is everyone always so concerned about having BT5 for wireless cracking? That's 1 part of the complete functionality for BT5. Hell, I'm more interested in having access to metaspl0it on a portable device. Way more worthwhile in my opinion. I'm going to play with the chrooted environment this weekend and see what all works/doesn't work. If I end up with the small display and figure out how to fix it, I'll try to remember to shoot you a PM or post it on here.
[Nook Color Android Development] kalel2000:
Code:

killall wpasupplicant

ifconfig tiwlan0 up

killall connmand

wpa_supplicant -Dwext -i tiwlan0 -c /etc/wifi/w2.conf & dhclient

Tried running this code to get wifi to connect but every time I time I type in the first line it says service not found. When I try the last line it says wpa_supplicant invalid command. Please help.
[Nook Color Android Development] stevemp:
Success :D Copied nookbuntu-0.3beta.tgz to the Angstrom partion on the sd card and extracted with file-roller and it worked. Much faster than I expected it would be, big thanks to all who made this possible!
[Nook Color Android Development] pts69666:
Let us know if you try it out! I am interested to hear how well it works on our devices.
[Nook Color Android Development] bled82:
Quick question would we be able to boot this on the emmc but set it up like the dual boot roms where if you just let it boot normal it loads first rom/partition on the emmc then if you hold n and boot it loads ubuntu or whatever linux os you manage to get working . so like cm7 normal boot then ubuntu n boot and maybe stock sdcard boot ?
[Nook Color Android Development] fingerman12:
Hi, What about that burnable image?

I have prepared a linux duel boot just for stuff like this... but somehow forgot my password to open suse :(

Thanks.

BTW, you could just split the file with winrar or somthing, and have 2 links.
[Nook Color Android Development] cama900:
ill host it on my dropbox, I have enough room
[Nook Color Android Development] honeycombgoodyeahyeahyeah:
The Old netbook launcher for Ubuntu is available as source here: https://launchpad.net/~doctormo/+archive/netbook-launcher/+packages could these be compiled for arm to run with nookbuntu?

Ill build and test.
[Nook Color Android Development] cama900:
Ok, i finally got around to getting a new card reader, did all of the steps, and when i boot it up it stays at the ANDROID_ screen forever, then after a while the screen goes black (not off) and clicking any button or touching the screen makes the screen go green... Ive tried everything i can thing of, verified the md5 sums, ran everything as root (even logged into the root user to do it) i didnt get any errors during any of the processes...

so any help would be appreciated :) thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] n8nmad:
Ubuntu Headless?

I was checking distributions and came across this:

oneiric-preinstalled-headless-armel+omap.img.gz

Is this Nookable?

The link is ftp.heanet.ie/pub/ubuntu-cdimage/ubuntu-headless/daily-preinstalled/20110625

thought it may be of interest but I'm not sure, the arm omap in the name peaked my interest. Are these arm builds generally for netbooks?
[Nook Color Android Development] bmullan:
Canonical/Ubuntu dev efforts for ARM as of June 16,2011

from June 16th article on "thevarguy".com website. Note that it doesn't mention OMAP3 (unless that 1st line is it??)

ARM and Ubuntu Server

For Ubuntu Server developers, producing a complete “Ubuntu ARM Server Edition” has become a priority for the current Ubuntu 11.10 release cycle, in order to perfect ARM support on Ubuntu Server in time for the next longterm support (LTS) release in April 2012. Specifically, the server team is focused on the following ARM architectures and types of images, according to the full specifications:

armel+omap

Image types: netboot, headless, preinstall server.

armel+omap4

Image types: netboot, headless, preinstall server.

armel+mx5

Image types: headless.

Progress towards the Ubuntu 11.10 ARM server is currently deemed 27 percent complete.
[Nook Color Android Development] bmullan:
Canonical/Ubuntu webpage for OMAP3/4 & Ubuntu 10.10

there is also Canonical/Ubuntu's web page describing:

"How to use preinstalled OMAP3/4 Maverick (10.10) Images apply the following steps"

https: // wiki. ubuntu. com / ARM / OMAPMaverickInstall

sorry for the spaces in the above URL but this site wouldn't let me post a URL.
[Nook Color Android Development] bmullan:
Linaro's work on Ubuntu for Android

This might be of interest to some of the developer folks working on getting Ubuntu for Android working....

————— Forwarded message —————

From: Riku Voipio

Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM

Subject: Arm porting jam today (14:00 - 18.00 UTC)

To: Linaro Dev

Hi,

Linaro Developer Platform team organises every week (Wednesday 14:00 - 18:00 UTC) an ARM porting Jam. The idea is to gather all developers together to fix userspace portability issues across the board. The list of bugs being worked on is at launchpad:

https: // bugs.launchpad.net /ubuntu/ +bugs?field.tag=arm-porting-queue&orderby;=-id

Interested in making the software in Ubuntu run better on ARM? Join us on

the #linaro channel on irc.linaro.org today!

Cheers,

Riku

_______________________________________________

linaro-dev mailing list

linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org

http: // lists.linaro.org / mailman/ listinfo/linaro-dev
[Nook Color Android Development] joohoo340:
Is this still being worked on? I would like to help out.

Has it been moved off somewhere else or are people just busy with real life?
[Nook Color Android Development] AidenM:
I think it has been abandoned. Can't be sure, to the devs no offense it's just what I think :D.
[Nook Color Android Development] xyzolog:
onscreen keyboard

I'm just curious: what's the virtual (onscreen) keyboard used on this distribution? The fact that it pops up automatically is quite interesting and unusual for Ubuntu AFAIK.

Great job!
[Nook Color Android Development] honeycombgoodyeahyeahyeah:
It might pop up automatically since there is no keyboard.
[Nook Color Android Development] honeycombgoodyeahyeahyeah:
Would it be possible to use the boot files provided, then build Ubuntu from here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch ? If we could modify it, maybe make it installable to the emmc?
[Nook Color Android Development] deadbot1:
ok...i have a working system ....kind of...

I got adventurous and extracted the latest overclocked kernel from CM7.1.0 as well as the newer MLO and uBoot.bin..fires up quicker, but now I have lost some of the mouse functionality.

I can move the cursor, but can NOT seem to get a "click" by long pressing on ANYTHING. Help me please devs :o:o:o:o

As I said...it loads and is up to the desktop much quicker this way...maybe 10-15% faster.
[Nook Color Android Development] Solarist:
If this becomes alive and folks need hosting space (without the multiupload PITA) let me know, and I can supply hosting for it.

Current 0.3 files are at:

Boot: http://www.nook.psykosis.net/nookbuntu-boot.7z

Image: http://www.nook.psykosis.net/nookbuntu-0.3beta.tgz
[Nook Color Android Development] viper2035:
Hi. There was no release for 5 months...is the development still going on?
[Nook Color Android Development] koopakid08:
Nope, dead.

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[Nook Color Android Development] devastatorx:
Might be looking to revive this project since i may have more time in the near future. So, just give me some time to get things in order and I'll see what can do. Sorry about the absence.

-devx
[Nook Color Android Development] bled82:
Looking forward to it , love the work so far.
[Nook Color Android Development] koopakid08:
Sweet. A dual boot with CM and Ubuntu doesn't sound bad at all.

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[Nook Color Android Development] SCrid2000:
That would be awesome man, and no apology needed :)
[Nook Color Android Development] Blue6IX:
If you want some help, shoot me a pm at some point to get this on my radar. I'll split my time between my projects on my phone and this, it's worth it.

This would be worth overwriting internal memory for.

No apologies needed, you give time as you can, and if not, don't sweat it.
[Nook Color Android Development] martinezjavier:
Great. I'm working on the same also. Well I'm currently working to port the Nook's Android drivers to Linux and pushing upstream for inclusion.

Right now I've advance a lot with the touchscreen driver.

I think that the best approach is first to have a functional Linux kernel for the Nook and then trying to install any ARM distribution (Ubuntu, Fedora, Yocto, OpenEmbedded, Angstrom, etc).

What do you think?
[Nook Color Android Development] koopakid08:
Sounds awesome! Keep us updated on your progress.

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[Nook Color Android Development] karimsaud21:
This would be amazing man, if/when you get this full linux kernel done then how well would the nook be able to handle a build like Ubuntu?
[Nook Color Android Development] therkr:
+1 to that!
[Nook Color Android Development] SCrid2000:
Lol, you might want to use all 8gb for it if you're running Ubuntu.
[Nook Color Android Development] koopakid08:
By dual boot I meant having CM or Ubuntu on an SD card, not both on internal. ;)

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[Nook Color Android Development] martinezjavier:
Well one great thing about the Nook color is that the boot sequence first scans the SD before trying to boot from the NAND. So you can basically boot whatever you wants.

The problem now is that the only Operating System that supports all the Nooks hardware is Android.

That is why people are doing a chroot to start Ubuntu. Once you have a kernel that fully supports the Nook, you can use any rootfs that you want. You only need to cross-compile the binaries to ARMv7.

The kernel is the hard part, the rest is easy.
[Nook Color Android Development] donnyevo4g:
hey guys quick question i just installed this on my nook color and when i put the sd card back in the nook the screen says loading and then goes to another screen were it says android at the left bottom corner but it dont boot into ubuntu can anyopne help or have this problem
[Nook Color Android Development] donnyevo4g:
Nvm got it to boot sorry but I'm having problems with wifi when I run first command it says no processes found?
[Nook Color Android Development] dragon_76:
Maverick already has already been ported to ARM7 along with a massive amount of apps. Motorola webtop phones are already running Ubuntu (albeit with some hacks)
[Nook Color Android Development] fr4nk1yn:
been wanting to try this. So I did.

Using OpenSuse Tumbleweed, 1st I had to format the partions once sdmarker.sh created them.

Once that was figured out I finished the instructions but got to a blue screen. Very similar to the BSOD without any words.

Now I did format "Angstrom" with ext4, perhaps it should've been ext3?

-edit: Nope. ext2 is the correct file system.
[Nook Color Android Development] HTCdemon:
Just curious on the video driver side of things...

Is it possible to use the 37xx SGX driver ( SGX core rev 1.2.5 / es5.x ) with our 3621? ( going by what the 3630 also is since thats the closest to our chip... one of the RN's says that the 3630 is a 1.2.5 ) or compile with those feature sets from the KM source?

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/RN_4_05_00_02

( Release notes on it )
[Nook Color Android Development] fr4nk1yn:
have thus booting. surprisingly it boots quickly and runs rather well. I was thinking it would be quite laggy.

problem is I can't connect to my wifi. I set up w2.conf, ran the commands in terminal, it doesn't connect, then rebooted. when it comes back up i can see my access point but can't connect to it. it then disappears.

bash: wpa_supplicant: command not found
there is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 3947
removed stale pid file

no working DHCPOFFERS recieved
no working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
[1]+ Exit 127
[Nook Color Android Development] devastatorx:
Currently, trying to get a hold of penkia, as he had hardware acceleration up and working.

I will look into your wifi issue, should have an answer soon.

To do:

-Hardware acceleration

-Less wonky wifi

-Hardware buttons
[Nook Color Android Development] smithisize:
I hope HW accel and buttons get working! I will literally buy this JUST for use as a tablet :)

Regards

Smith
[Nook Color Android Development] therkr:
It'll be a whole new level if full ubuntu runs on the NC!
[Nook Color Android Development] MrColdbird:
Bumping this for greater justice, this is too awesome to let it die on Page 2+.

I love it so far and if someone could make charging work then it could finally replace my power devouring workstation as my main downloader with JDownloader...
[Nook Color Android Development] rabi347:
SD Burn

I tried burning the image on the mac but I get a lot of errors when I use the command SU.... (the first command) to start the burn process (definitely not a good start for me). could someone please help me with the burn process.

Thanks

Edit: finally got this part to work.
[Nook Color Android Development] rabi347:
Having the same problem here. Could someone please help us. Thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] rabi347:
How did you get it to work?
[Nook Color Android Development] androidifyme:
I am trying this later today if it works I will help you rabi347, I am looking forward to doing some editing to the u-boot.bin and allowing this to boot from emmc, and doing the emmc, swap will make this an awsome setup for stock and nookbuntu dualbooting. Enough talking
[Nook Color Android Development] rabi347:
Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] androidifyme:
Edit: This works for me.

make sure you copy the contents inside system to the ext3 partition, not the system folder itself, and make sure you use linux to do everything dont switch between windows and linux or anything else.

also the sdcardmaker.sh isnt very universal, I had to remove /mapper/ and p1, and p2. if you get rid of most of the veriables like that and leave it with just the {partition1} {partition2} instead of {partition1}p2, so delete p2 and so on so forth this should then create the correct mount points and you should then be able to copy over the files and boot into ubuntu.

I did notice, that if you have the usb plugged in when you boot up, wifi does not work no matter what this maybe me but I tried serveral times, then unhooked usb and followed steps and wifi worked.

I also added this to

so that it will work onstart, it normaly takes about 30 seconds and usually 2 to 3 attempts before it connects but once connected it doesnt lose its connection
[Nook Color Android Development] therkr:
*nevermind. Solved
[Nook Color Android Development] vacaloca:
Bumping this also. Would be really nice to have ubuntu fully working on the NC!
[Nook Color Android Development] Blue6IX:
anyone have a mirror for these files? i'd love to play and have the time now...
[Nook Color Android Development] DistrictDigital:
Blue6IX linked me to a thread and I'm on linux, and I can't get this extracted. It's in parts, and I keep getting an error. I've checked the MD5SUM against another persons, and they all match. Neither me, or the other person can extract. If someone would upload the WHOLE thing, or at least something not 7z, I'd greatly appreciate it. I appreciate all of the work being put in and all of the efforts to making it more stable!
[Nook Color Android Development] plasticarmyman:
Ubuntu for Android @ MWC

i just read this..

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Ubuntu-For-Android-Smartphones-Coming-For-MWC-474169/

and it made me think of this thread...

i'm going to keep reading up on this as i hear more and try to find the distro and maybe someone can port it over?....would that be easier?

(i am relatively new to linux and ubuntu...but i have been following this thread and i thought this was pretty sweet)