hi, I finally managed to finish the rootstock-ng installer that can be used for any device that has the android .img files available to perform an ubuntu-system installation (loop mounted readonly images as you know them from the supported devices)
There is a README.rootstock-touch-install file in the tree that roughly describes how to perform an install, it should theoretically work with any device that is able to run ubuntu-touch out there (including all the ports if they are able to use a recent trusty rootfs) This should enable more people to actually use their devices for testing and together with the rootstock-touch script it should also enable you to prepare one of the supported devices with a readonly image that includes packages provided in a PPA (i.e. the long awaited Qt 5.2 testing image can be easily build now) I'll quickly outline how to use the two scripts: Installing a flo (Nexus7 2013) experimental image with the necessary Mir PPA from rsalveti added: ----- First we install the needed dependencies: sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils qemu-arm-static android-tools-adb Now we branch the rootstock-ng tree including the scripts and move into the direcotry: bzr branch lp:project-rootstock-ng cd project-rootstock-ng Here we now run the rootstock-touch script with rsalvetis PPA included so the needed Mir packages for the flo get included: ./rootstock-touch -p pps:rsalveti/ppa The above command will take about 90 minutes on a mildly fast internet connection (use a package proxy like approx or apt-cacher-ng if you plan to repeatedly do builds, see the -m option of rootstock-touch for this use case) Now that the script is done we need to download the android img files from rsalveti ... wget http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/aosp/flo/system.img ... We'll do that for all three img files in that dir. Next we need to boot the flo in fastboot (bootloader) mode by holding down "Vol Down" while pressing the power key. Now attach it via USB and run: fastboot flash boot ./boot.img fastboot flash recovery ./recovery.img After these two commands have finished, select "recovery mode" on the screen of the flo (using the volume keys for selection and power as enter key) Once the device booted into recovery we can run the installer commmand with the tarball from the out-$(date) dir that was created by rootstock-touch before: ./rootsotck-touch-installer ./out-20140208/ubuntu-touch.rootfs-armhf.tar.gz ./system.img The script will print what is does (note it wipes all former ubuntu-system installs from the device by default, use the -k option if you had an install like this already and want to keep the data of the phablet user in place (Music, Videos etc)) Once the device rebooted you should see Ubuntu Touch on the screen. ----- I hope this will be helpful for porters to operate a little closer to what the official images provide, the rootstock-touch-install script works indeed also with ubuntu-touch tarballs downloaded from cdimage.ubuntu.com, building one should only be done if you want to include a PPA in the build. Feedback is indeed appreciated :) ciao oli
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