Neil Jerram wrote: > On 24 April 2010 21:59, James Ancona <j...@anconafamily.com> wrote: > > > > The installer puts all of Android in NAND. After installation the SD card is > > only used for extra storage (web downloads, media, etc.) Any FAT formatted > > SD card will do. You can run with no SD card in there, but as I recall, some > > things don't work. > > > It should boot other distributions from SD. The modification is because > > Andoid uses a different NAND partition layout. If you want to replace > > Android with a different distribution in NAND, you should reflash Qi. > > Hope that helps! > > Yes thanks, it does. It tells me that I can't switch between Debian > and Android completely seamlessly - but that I can at least do it by > swapping SD cards. Which is probably OK for now. > > FWIW, my reason for asking is that I'm now hoping to find something a > bit more swishy and impressive than just basic phone function. Debian > has been fine for me for basic phone function for some time now, and I > expect to keep that as my mainstay. But I'd love to be able to > demonstrate how cool the FR is by saying "but look, it can also run > Android, here...". > > Regards, > Neil
I had similar reasons to try Android - another being is the browser ;-) You can use an SD only version, which is documented in this thread [1] and mirrored here [2]. I have _normal_ Qi as bootloader and Android + SHR on my SD which looks like this: p[FAT, for Android data] p[ext3, Androit rootfs] p[ext3, SHR rootfs] e[ext3 data] e[swap] NAND holds an SHR-U of known state that is functional for basic calling - just in case... What I really miss though are easy updates for Android on SD. Cheers, Christian [1] http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/issues/detail?id=7 [2] http://openmoko.senfdax.de/android/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community