On 7/17/09, Vikas Saurabh <vikas.saur...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am totally awed with this mini-comp with not-so-good-yet-workable GSM > capabilities. > > But the best hack/trick I could try on my FR was when I was totally out of > any comp anywhere (linux/win) although there was WiFi available and I wanted > to flash SHR-U on the device. > Well it was so simple...I just browsed to shr-u images link and downloaded > the tar.gz. Created a new partition on my SD card. Untarred the image on > that parition. Put noboot-GTA02 in the original partition. Reboot and voila > I was working on SHR-U. > It was an amazing feeling: > * Flash your phone with a new OS > * No USB cable > * No trick to start flashing > * Using one distro to install another > > woah!..show me any phone that can do that...in fact i don't even know of any > mainstream linux distributions for desktop which would support that :)
Look at Debian and debootstrap ;) (that's also the way of installing Debian on FreeRunner) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community