[General Topics] S0AndS0:
Back from the wilds

Who me? Yep. I like working on things I believe in. But I took your advice; had some fun, kept the fire alive, and played safety interpreted for those with low situational awareness in the dark :p . But I didn't go unprepared not to continue my work here without access to the network...

On answering your issue specificity; I dug though my old notes from when I started all this and found that when I had done a restore from a backup that didn't have tun ko and busybox installed I received errors ...(

to solve this I made a backup right after installing those apps back on my device, but, before installing Debian Kit.

- then I installed the unpacker for Debian Kit; the .share file that we use to get things started on the internal memory.

- Made another backup so that I've one that is ready to re-install anything; for when I do something to the phone that only a restore or re-flash and restore will fix, and, another that is ready to reformat my Linux system and start over; for when I've done something that only a fresh install of Linux will fix.

)... The other time that I've recived errors like that was when installing Ubuntu to my myTouch 3Gs with sON, so far I've no easy workaround other than going thought the steps of gaining sOFF on my HTC device. From what I've been able to gather; the Android system, especially for some devices, is very prospective of the system space and the directories. What I had to do; was try different methods of installing Linux or running Linux on Android and different distributions until I found the one that worked with all my devices, which turned out to be Debian Kit with Debian Squeeze installed with it. Some of my other devices where capable of running the other distributions and other methods too, but, like I said I only found one that would work for all of mine HTC included. All is not lost though; there are other options out there with Debian Kit, and there are other methods too that might work better for your hardware's eccentricities. And the other big plan that I have is making an "update.zip" file that can do all this and then some to our phones from the devices' boot-loader/custom-recovery which should eliminate many of the permission problems that we're all going to have on some stubborn devices; this could be called a "Stretch Goal" if you're fimelure with the Kick Starter site, in other words that part of the project I can only hint at because my time is spent on this and making money so I can spend more time on this (other things too but some might be suprized as to the amount I dedicate to this project as a whole)

All I can hope is that you do figure out what is causing this for your system and that you then are able to document what the issue was and the steps to solve it, if you add the device specific details or what ever details are important to replicate the issue and it's solution, then I'll be sure to try and include the fix in this new script that I'll been working on for us...

So this new script... I've not got it running yet, however, very soon... Look at section 3 and how dismally empty it looks and has looked for many a moon... now think something like "dang that's going to be a pain, wish there was a one click cloud installer already" and then know that that is exactly what I'm working on :cool: and will be updating you all on when I've more news, just know that my time vacationing was well spent on learning, coding, and testing, and that very soon there is going to be a shift coming. (Stretch Goal: beyond that I'll be writing a "one click" supper script that will install everything start to finish and only prompt us users for the info that we need to provide, and by start to finish, I mean start from rooted android that has nothing or has had something of Debian Kit installed on it and then roll the download, unpack, install, user setup, updates, upgrades, and installing section 3 materials to the device after asking the user for all the info at the start so we can just leave it on a charger somewhere and know that in a few hours we can just connect to it without ever touching it again.)

Wow, been reading up on this too when taking brakes from other section in the guide. The mobile computing thing is a complex creation. I'll have to do more reading but I like the idea of that kernel that supports both and it be really nice to have that on both sides of the android linux environment that way we've got compatibility to shake something at another not so compatible something:p. kernel rebuilds are something that I run across directions for in both communities so it would sound fesable to me to have such compatibility ported to all devices that can sport it.

So back to all readers again: Good morning.

I'm still working and very much in the mists of making things happen here with the Android/Linux system, just got to wait for me to catch up the Doc and posts for a little bit.