MoblinFans, I've successfully installed the Moblin Developer image booted from a live (developer) image onto another thumb drive with instructions below. Installation target thumb drive must be >8GB. When installation creates the disk layout on target drive, review partitions and write device names down the "/" and "/boot" filesystems. In my particular case, "/" was assigned to /dev/sdb2 and "/boot" to /dev/sdb1, respectively. I then mounted these according to the instructions below to make the small config changes - now I have a very portable Moblin development system.
On a separate note, I'm observing an issue configuring pyclutter. It complains about the installed pygtk-2.0 not being the correct version. I used yum to pull in and install pygtk-2.13.1 and when I try to configure pyclutter it complains about pygtk-2.0 >= 2.8.0 requirement not being met. If I go back to pygtk v2.8.0 then a whole set of new issues arise where even the "developer Moblin image" included clutter v0.9.2 image does not meet reqs for pyclutter. If anyone has worked around the pyclutter issue as I described, I would most grateful if solution is shared. Thanks, Eli ________________________________ From: Tonny Tzeng [mailto:[email protected]] Here are steps I used to re-install the moblin v2 developer image to an external USB disk, hopefully it works for you. (1) Boot the developer image and select "Boot" option, because we need to do some modifications after the installation. (2) Launch the liveinst by clicking the "Install to Hard Drive" desktop icon, follow the instructions to install to your USB key or disk. (3) In the disk selection menu, make sure you select the right disk for the installation, and the same disk to boot from. (4) After the installation, launch a terminal and mount the new created root fs. For example, in my Eeepc 901, there are 2 built-in SSDs (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb), my USB key with live developer image loaded is /dev/sdc, the target USB disk is /dev/sdd, and I used default partititon layout, the /dev/sdd1 and /dev/sdd3 will be mounted as /boot and / respectively, so I mount the /dev/sdd3 to /mnt for the following modification. (5) Edit the new created fstab (/mnt/etc/fstab in my case), remove any "/dev/sdc" node and change every "/dev/sdd" to "/dev/sdc" because I will boot this USB disk alone without other USB key. (6) Umount the target root fs (umount /mnt) and mount the traget /boot (mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt) for editing the grub.conf (7) Edit the target grub.conf (/mnt/grub/grub.conf in my case), revise the "root=" to the right disk (should be /dev/sdc3) and add "rootdelay=8" to the kernel command line. (8) Reboot your netbook with the new created USB disk. PS: when you got kernel panic like "VFS: Unable to mount root fs", you could check messages above the panic, if your external USB key were not detected before the panic, you could try to add more seconds delays. FYI. Best Regards, Tonny _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
