[Touch CDMA General] ali3nfr3ak:
Hi all , i am a new android user and would like to have a go a biulding some custom roms, Now i have no experiene with linux.. well the last 3days.. lol, and i have read the how to make a hero rom txt from the vogue - hero site and while that maybe suffucient for others to get up and away with rom building its not for me, So i am wondering if there is a more in depth step by step guide for not only a new android user but a new linux user also, would be very much appreciated :D

ok so there hasnt been much of a respone so ill share the steps i have so far

1. I installed Ubuntu linux ( Dual Boot with win 7 )

2. Needed to know how to install Squashfs did a search on google found this

A) open terminal window ( Ubuntu start menu, accessories )

B) type: sudo aptitude search squashfs , u will be prompted for password

this is what happened with mine:

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~$ sudo aptitude search squashfs

[sudo] password for ali3nfr3ak:

i squashfs-tools - Tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems

C) type this command:sudo apt-get install squashfs-tools

My Dialog ( ihad to uninstall and then reinstall to get this so mine will be alittle different to

yours

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~$ sudo apt-get install squashfs-tools

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

squashfs-tools

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B/122kB of archives.

After this operation, 319kB of additional disk space will be used.

Selecting previously deselected package squashfs-tools.

(Reading database ... 115049 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking squashfs-tools (from .../squashfs-tools_1%3a4.0-1_i386.deb) ...

Processing triggers for man-db ...

Setting up squashfs-tools (1:4.0-1) ...

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~$

C) all done close terminal i type: exit

3: Next for testing purposes download this Google-Android-Ion-v1.5-2009-10-23-sdcard-not-google-apps and etract this and placed a copy of system.sqsh into it s own directory

4: i then opened another terminal window ( easier to copy and paste show you what my window looks like

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~$ dir

Desktop Documents Downloads examples.desktop HERO Music Pictures	Public	Templates Videos

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~$ cd HERO

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~/HERO$ dir

Testing

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~/HERO$ cd Testing

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~/HERO/Testing$ dir

system.sqsh

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~/HERO/Testing$ unsquashfs system.sqsh

Parallel unsquashfs: Using 2 processors

650 inodes (1408 blocks) to write

[=====================================================================================================================================================-] 1408/1408 100%

created 650 files

created 45 directories

created 0 symlinks

created 0 devices

created 0 fifos

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~/HERO/Testing$ dir

squashfs-root system.sqsh

ali3nfr3ak@ali3nfr3ak:~/HERO/Testing$

basicially u can use the same commands as windows but with out the / and the spelling and Capitial letters have to be exact

Windows

/dir

/cd hero

Linux

dir

cd HERO

A new folder is created called squashfs-root which has all the files/ folders from the system.sqsh u just decompressed ( my description )

and that is a far as i have got so far