[General Topics] S0AndS0:
Really its all about keeping screen uncluttered for me, having a keyboard on screen knocks half of the screen size when I use it so I went on the hunt for solutions.

Heh, I started on an Apple II GS, back in the days when floppy disks where floppy :) I think I've still got it kicking around somewhere... With DSL all one needs to do on the command line is tap enter when it first starts up, oh and in limbo's settings be sure to set the boot preference to CD and put the DSL ISO in the virtual CD tray, this will keep the VM from trying to boot off a hard drive that doesn't exists yet.

Edit: when DSL boots the screen will first have a welcome screen asking for your input. Pressing enter will boot off the CD image (the ISO file) into what's called a "live boot" which loads the default GUI. Note though that you'll still have to wait for that to happen because after pressing enter on the first screen (the one that has a penguin) your screen is going to fill up with text and eventually a green bar will show progress. After that things will tweak out and everything will go gray with an 'X' somewhere near the middle; everything is OK, slowly the gray will get painted in by a background with gears, a window opened to DSL's help to the left, and flickering status bars to the right. At this point you'll likely need to fiddle with the mouse control and the screen size; pressing menu on your device should bring up the options to make the adjustments. Let me know if I need to go deeper into how to customize Limbo because sometimes it's tricky.

Been there a few times, trying to record a screen with another camera, it's tricky and why I've been testing Android screen cast apps; not one has worked for me yet. I may end up taking some boxes and a knife and make some kind of stand that also allows me to control how much light hits the screen so I don't end up fighting with glare.

Well I'll try to send you an install of Ubuntu 12 that is still on my Epic 4G's SDcard.... tough not having a PC but we should be able to work it out, just PM me an email I can send a file under 70mb to and I'll attach the file with the username and password; this file will be in qcow2 format and should be placed as the virtual hard drive to boot from.

Edit: just tried to boot the qcow2 image and it didn't work, I'll check my backups and if one isn't available I'll make a new one.

Edit: backup found :) I'll not be compressing the file so the size is going to be 327MB and I'll test to see that it boots before sending Ubuntu your way.

Edit: well darn looks like I should make a few Limbo installs (my backup didn't work) do you have any requests? I have this Friday off and can set up just about any 32bit flavor of Linux and get it converted to Qcow2. Currently I've access to Kali, Ubuntu, and DSL... DSL from what I remember is not designed to run off hard drive, more of a live boot tool, Kali is designed for pen testing (penetration testing of networks) and Ubuntu is an everyone OS with support for almost any kind of user. But if you've a flavor of Linux that you'd prefer I can download and install and convert that instead.

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Debian Kit/QEMU Linux Install guide for all android devices that I'm writing:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2240397

Now have working Installers for ARM Java 7 JDK + Maptools + jMonkey