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[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] vcivilen:
Can we use HID devices such as Bluetooth mouse & keyboard with fully features (rightclick, ctrl-A, ctrl-C) ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] jmhalder:
It'd be nice if something other than MegaUpload was used to mirror this, I pretty much refuse to pay for an acct. to download FOSS stuff.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fire314:
haha, yeah - oops. I guess I didn't manage to "clean" the image particularly well before uploading it. Someone who shall remain nameless (Georgia) was messing around with the bluetooth keyboard that I'd just paired and I obviously shut down Ubuntu without noticing. I think everything else is still in a pristine state tho :P

Yeah, HID compliant mice and keyboard will pair with the Galaxy S and can be used along with TV-out to make this a nice portable PC in your pocket!

You shouldn't need a paid for account, a free one will do (as the files are less than 500MB).
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] firenxe:
I second this. Pease upload the video to Mediafire or start a torrent cause Megaupload blocked my country and downloading via a vpn isn't fast at all.

Thanks :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] LinuxR:
Hi, did the ubuntu.sh file work for you(it won't do for me) or how did you managed to install it on the streak?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] gingernator007:
I used the scripts from this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=963385 and the .img from this current thread
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] cheeseburgers:
So if i follow the guide outlined in this thread and the scripts from that link it be ok/ =] which scripts did you use?

edit: eh, just read that linked thread and the scripts are in the torrent file >____< anyone care to post them? I can't use torrents here .....
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] flexoduss:
Awesome it works thnx a lot
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] keithwwalker:
Simple question, will the phone work with Ubuntu?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] steven81:
ubuntu will not start

Hello everyone I have followed your guide but I can not start ubuntu I sh ubuntu.sh and nothing happens ... I do not know what's wrong

:( i have a galaxy s gt i9000 with darky 9.3
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] LinuxR:
I tried it with these scrips but i get errors.

I'm running latest streakdroid could that be the problem?

Thanks for your help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fire314:
Do you have busybox and superuser installed? What terminal emulator are you using?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] firenxe:
Hi, I finally managed to download the files using a vpn.

Unfortunately, the script states that my sdcard does not have enough space to mount the image. I have squeezed the image file into the external SD card by moving some videos to the internal SD card and now both SD cards are full so I'm just wondering which SD card should I clear up for the mounting and how much space does it require?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] super_sonic:
Hello,

I tried on my I9000 with busybox installed and phone rooted, but script seems to make error on losetup... I'm going to look issue in detail...

Thanks for this chroot method.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] $omator:
how about some mirrors? i get 0-20 transfer :/
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] steven81:
Yes i have busybox and superuser an i use android terminal emulator jack palevich.....
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] c0nvict:
can this be installed on internal sd?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fire314:
Yeah it can be put wherever you have enough space to store the .img file
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] c0nvict:
When i try to extract ubuntu.img it gives me a crc error why?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fire314:
Others have downloaded it and extracted it without a problem so there must have been an error in your data transfer??
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] afrinick:
hi, i have a problem.

i use terminal emulator from the galaxy s, i do this step:- Place ubuntu.sh and ubuntu.img in the same directory in your SD storage.

- Enter a terminal and enter 'su' to become a superuser (root).

- Navigate to the directory where you placed the files (e.g. "cd /sdcard/external_sd/ubuntu").

- Execute the script by typing "sh ubuntu.sh".

when i execute the script it is:

"Exiting chroot environment and sync'ing memory to storage.."

DO NOT EXIT until finished - doing so may corrupt the ubuntu.img!"

#

so now what i have to do?

the androidvcn say me:vcn connection failed!

localhost/127.0.0.1:5900 -connection refused
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] c0nvict:
i have the same problem. Help anyone plz?

File is Corrupted when i try to extract...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fire314:
It may be something to do with the kernel not supporting 'noatime' mounts (which makes for faster reading/writing to the .img file).

I am using SpeedMod K13D Kernel, and in the Recovery mode options I have enabled all recommended tweaks (noatime remount being one of them).
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sunra0815:
Thank you! I will try to get this working on my 2.3.3 rom. Or has anyone tried this without success?

Edit: No, does not work.

"Exiting chroot environment and sync'ing memory to storage.."

DO NOT EXIT until finished - doing so may corrupt the ubuntu.img!"

localhost/127.0.0.1:5900 -connection refused

Edit 2: It´s working fine on Android 2.2.1 with Speedmodkernel K13d!

:-)

@fire314 : Do you know if it is possible to change the resolution? It would be grate if it´s possible to configure a widescreenresolution.

It´s also bad, that there is no option for fullscreenmode in pocketcloud. Next i wanna test it with androidVNC.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zedklind:
im REALLY excited to get this running on my g2x when it gets released. one more reason my upgrade from g1 to o2x is going to be SUBSTANTIAL. thank you for the work!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DaSnOoTeRKiNG:
I have a D1 and did this using the nexus 1 guide about a month ago but it was super laggy and virtually unusable. My question is have you done anything to modify the kernel? Either way excellent work because it was a pain in the neck :D.............are the links mirrors or the file split? i never can tell.

I was refering to the *Ubuntu* kernel....and also if you have to ask why this would be useful you probably shouldn't be using it :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] wieg86:
Whould this work with other phones like the LG optimus 2x? No, right...because of the drivers?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] shelay:
hi, were you able to output the display to an external screen and how.that the only thing that might make me dump my streak for an atrix motorola. cheers

did you move all your apps to the phone off the SD card to run unbuntu?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] jastonas:
I get this error

ZTE Blade running 2.2 Swedish Spring
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] junkyhlm:
Im on Samsung Galaxy S i9000 with Doc's romkitchen gingerbread 2.3.3 rom and supercurio's hacked stock gingerbread kernel and this dont work sadly. Hopefully when Samsung releases the kernel sources it will be fully funtional.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Staxxthedan:
Sweet, Trying this out on HD2...:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ravi84m:
Confirmed: Not working with Galaxy S

I read negative reactions from other SGS owners but I had to try it myself to confirm it... It's not functioning under hummingbird processors.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] diesel360:
Debian vs Ubuntu

I've been running the Debian image that came out a couple years ago. I started running it on my G1 and now am running it on my Atrix. Has anyone used both and seen any functional benefit to using the Ubuntu image? My Debian image is an ext3 partition on my sdcard.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fire314:
This works on the Galaxy S - but it requires the SpeedMod Kernel with noatime tweak enabled!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fire314:
Because the system boots into a filesystem that is inside an .img file, the .img file includes free space for installing further apps. There's many hundreds of MBs free to install further apps.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Alberto96:
i can use this in miui rc3c?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DanWilson:
How would we go about changing LXDE to Ubuntu's Netbook Desktop majig?

Also - you think it'd be possible to boot this? (If we extracted the .img to an ext partition and made the boot.img for it)

I've been trying to boot Debian on my DZ, but failed at both the chroot and building the kernel. I'm working on the kernel though. It's just being a beach. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ShadedCyan:
Is it possible to dual boot this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] OnE ShoT:
Will this work on the mytouch 4g?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] nibras_reeza:
The whole image is 3.5GB? :/ Would this even run in older phones? Hmm, I can remember seeing a 300MB images somewhere else. Guess will try that first. I wanted to try this from a long time but never did. (Thanks to my laziness)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DanWilson:
Should do. If you are rooted anyway.

Not exactly. I'm trying to set this kinda thing up for the Desire Z / G2, but it won't be like a menu asking "Android or Ubuntu", cos that'd be too hard.

First you'd need to build a kernel for it. (Which is were I fail)

Second you'd need to get the filesystem set up.

Third you'd need a way to boot the kernel. Like fastboot boot

Fourthly, you're gonna need to make sure it all works before releasing it.

As such, it'd take a while to "dual-boot" it on one device, nevermind any other devices.

By the way, that guide isn't exactly what you do. I can't be bothered looking it all up and writing it here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] erseta:
Hi!! Thanks for your work!! I've tried it on a Nexus S, I copy it in a folder called Ubuntu in the Internal Storage and after I execute the commands in the terminal emulator, it says it'll start but it lasts very long and can't boot it... could you help me? Do you know if it's compatible? Thanks!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] nathris:
CRC error...

Any chance I could get some MD5 sums on the working archives?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Jadalist:
Ubuntu on HD2?

Will there be any chance to have the opportunity to put Ubuntu onto a HD2? Since you can Flash a 2.2 Rom to the HD2 would be capeable of handling it??? Due to the big screen and fast hardware that would be absolutely fantastic!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] MTN_HD2:
+1 but ehh :) its a long shot
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] jasonnt:
Xoom

Works like a raped ape on my Xoom! but how to change the display resolution?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] OnE ShoT:
This is already possible go here: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=983
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] byaco:
any chance this could work for the Motorola Milestone?

i'm downloading atm but it would be nice to know.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] androc:
resizing image

Hey there,

I got two questions.

Is it possible to downsize the image to 2G with uec-resize-image? I always get the error:

failed to fsck ubuntu.img

Would it be possible to get this running on a HTC G1?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] thedicemaster:
as far as i know it uses the drivers from android, because both ubuntu and android run on top of the linux kernel.

i got it running fine on my PoV mobii tegra(advent vega/P10AN01) with 1 exception:

i'm stuck at using only 800x600 as screen resolution, considering i have a well-sized screen i'd like to know if there's a way to get a 1024x600 resolution.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sunra0815:
It's also working with xan's insane kernel with oc and uv! With this kernel you can get a bit more performance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lux@:
Don't work on my Xperia X10i original 2.1 Root...

BusyBox v1.18.4 (re)installed from Busybox Installer (from Market)...

I use Terminal Emulator & AndoridVNC! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] caleb220:
having a boat load of problems. First, the links provided are giving me issues. I.E. I try to open it with 7zip but it always gives me errors. Second, I tried it with the chroot way but I could never get my computer to find the android adk. So i tried doing it on my phone. I get to the "bootubuntu" part but after that it says failed. I am using phoneix unleashed on samsung captivate. I would appreciate any help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] the_scotsman:
Did you get it working?

Curious as I wouldn't mind trying it on mine...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dadewy:
FWIW signing up for the free megaupload membership seems to double your download speed (did for me anyhow). Still not exactly fast, just "less slow".

It didn't even ask me to verify the email I was using in any way.

Someone with upstream speed less pathetic than mine may want to consider torrenting this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rebosxl:
Thats strange..I downloaded 7zip and every one of those files refuse to extract.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dodgejcr:
This is working fine on my Evo Shift and here are the md5's of the archives I used. Since it is a few rather large downloads, it would be a good idea for the OP to put these in the post. We all know how sometimes downloads can be corrupted

b243ded14a3e7d96c12a752c1480e9f8 ubuntu.zip.001

e01f7934478062172a4c7a0a4a376b92 ubuntu.zip.002

76d69b740bfb2ddb9c0d26abca969b89 ubuntu.zip.003

567c842b8a9433535665353a26368338 ubuntu.zip.004

Hope this helps someone that was wondering :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] joeybarclay:
I got this to work but it never shows anything past "this may take some time"

I have to guess when ubuntu is up and running and I haven't been able to get it to work since. How long does it take for ubuntu to start? the first time I waited a half and hour and it worked but now I have tried doing 15 minutes but it still wont work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Freija:
I have a similar problem. I'm running SpeedMod with the tweaks enabled, SU and BB... stuck on the "Please wait while booting ubuntu.img. This can take some time..." dialog.

How long should it take to boot?

NM. It was actually running.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dodgejcr:
Mine actually does that as well. Its running almost instantly after tho. I have had a problem with shutting it down tho. Cant exit or anything from the terminal thus stopping the process. Even after I disconnect from the host, I can still VNC into active session. Simple reboot stops it but I wonder if it is something with my setup
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] joeybarclay:
How long did it take to boot? Mine seems like it takes around 30 minutes
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Freija:
I think it only takes a few min. How I knew when it was done was because when you first run the 3 commands, it'll lag for a bit and you can't type. Once you're able to type, Ubuntu should be booted.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] joeybarclay:
I had to use the terminal in this app to get it working https ://market.android.com/details?id=com.webkey&feature=search_result
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Infinimint:
For anyone wondering, this is crazy easy...

Preinstallation:

1) Download all the files from here: http://goo.gl/bltOF. (Please add to OP as a mirror)

2) Put them into a folder called "ubuntu".

3) Plug your phone in and mount USB.

4) Drag and drop the whole folder onto your sdcard.

5) Open the Android Market and download these apps:

Installation:

1) Open "Android Terminal Emulator"

2) Type in the following commands in order:

$ su
# cd /sdcard/ubuntu
# sh ubuntu.sh

3) Ignore the message and press the home button.

4) Open androidVNC and enter these settings:

5) Press "connect".

6) If it did not connect, wait 5 minutes and try again.

7) Once connected, press the MENU button.

8) Press "Input Mode" and select "Touchpad"

9) Enjoy!

10) When you want to exit entirely, open up Android Terminal Emulator (yes, there will still be text everywhere) and enter the command:

exit

Everytime after doing this the first time, Ubuntu will boot in seconds (literally, faster than I could find my androidVNC app ;P ).
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bernabap:
I get it to work on my phone but when I try to exit chroot I got an error:

"umount: can't forcibly umount /data/local/mnt/proc: Device or resource busy"

It works nicelly though! But I dont know how unmount /data/local/mnt/proc, only rebooting.

I was just wondering if anyone know what was in use causing the resource busy message or how can I determine the problem?

Thanks

I got an Desire if does it matter and took out the lines referencing the external_sd from ubuntu.sh.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Infinimint:
Try rebooting and see if that fixes it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] stevie-c:
can someone who tried this check if the ubuntu has access to hardware devices. Does it have sound?

If it did it might be worth trying to run a full mythtv frontend on the phone :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tku137:
I've done everything as explained. Put image and script on sdcard, tried to run it with better terminal emu and remoteVNC pro, all I got was same like

So I read through this thread and came across some aspects. I Flashed speedmod K13D, enabled the noatime tweak, installed the mentioned apps Android Terminal Emulator and androidVNC, even tried to reinstall busybox, but its always the same.

Is there another thing I forgot, or am I just an unlucky guy?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] aaopt:
The post mentions HID keyboards. I assume that will only work if it's already working in android? Or can Ubuntu's Bluetooth stack work anyway?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] SalsaForte:
Would be awesome to "torrent" this instead of only using MegaUpload.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] nibras_reeza:
I think it would be possible if the HD2 uses the linux kernel.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] the_scotsman:
Tried this on my HD2, doesn't get passed the booting "this may take some time" message.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DanWilson:
Why not boot Ubuntu like all of us lesser mortals can only dream of?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] thedicemaster:
if you get that "this may take some time" message it most likely means it's already running.

you don't get any specific messages saying it started, you just need to exit the terminal app through the home button and launch a vnc client.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] caleb220:
You sir, are my hero! I couldn't get those files to work for the life of me until you gave me these AMAZING links. Downloading right now, I hope to get this running today. Thank you so much. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sunra0815:
Has anyone tried to get ubuntu netbook edition or damn small linux working?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rebosxl:
your not unlucky this is happening to me too! hopefully we won't be ignored, can anyone help?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sunra0815:
I only can tell you that i have running Android 2.2.1 JS8 from Doc´s and Stefanul´s ROMkitchen with speedmodkernel K13d bigmem. ext4 lagfix, all recommended tweaks activated and it works fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ravi84m:
I have managed to get it running using damianGTO's kernel on stock gingerbread. The only problem is that android's terminal is getting killed every 5 min or so.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sunra0815:
How does it run? How long does it take to open Firefox? It would be nice to get a slighter linuxversion get working ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] liljom:
does it require loopback support?

I run Gingerbread on a Desire HD and I get the .... it can take some time, I start VNC, and it says, that it fails to connect
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] caleb220:
Just wondering, I have problem to where it wont connect through VPN. It might be becasue I am using a different img that is made for different set up proceses. But, everything works fine on the terminal part, it is just that VPN wont connect. Do you think it is due to incorrect img? Or could it be different problem?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fxandrei:
i tryied this on motorola milestone.

i use sh ubuntu.sh, i get the wait message and the i try the vnc viewer.

its says connection refused.

so i wait a while but still it doesnt work. i have the froyomod 2.6 .

one more thing.

if my screen gets locked and i try to unlock it (by pressing the power button or using the keyboard) the screed stays black, and all i can to is remove tha battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sunra0815:
people who have issues maybe should try to download and /or unzip the files again. after triying to get damn small linux running with this script i´ve also the same error like people who told from some issues. i think i´ve corrupted the image. maybe that´s your problem too ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] c0nvict:
Maybe your task killer kills it automatically
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bled82:
What an easy way to set the screen res to 1024x600 so its full screen ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ravi84m:
I think it's a built in feature galaxy s devices. No easy way to disable it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ravi84m:
firefox would start in 2-3 min.

It's not very handy to have but it's still a neat feature to impress your friends ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] emperor43:
i get an error at busybox mount -o /dev/block/loop255 /data/local/mnt ; it says mount: can't read /etc/fstab: No such file or directory. I'm running CM7 rc4 on xperia x10. Any suggestions ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] BlackDragonBE:
My HTC Desire reboots every time I execute the script.

I'm running redux 1.1.1.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Infinimint:
No problem, that's what XDA-Developers is all about.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Infinimint:
Do you mean VNC?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Infinimint:
I just updated my original installation guide @ http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12686965&postcount=88

I added:

QR Codes

Desktop Links

Mobile Links

Removed "Still Uploading..."
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Infinimint:
If you look at my post, I included a link that lists all the required files and md5's, all with hotlinks. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zanzee:
Anyone manage to get this to work with the Atrix? pm me so not to clog up this thread thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] aaopt:
In the chroot's /root folder is a file called init.sh or something like that. Resolution to use is a variable setting right at the top of the file... just change it and it should be the right size next time you launch ubuntu.sh .