This interesting error screen appeared when I was trying to install debian on the HP t5000:
I love erratically behaving technology!
Archive for March, 2007
Sweet! Just got QEMU installed on Ubuntu!
Thanks to:
Katherine and David Goodwin - How to install QEmu on Ubuntu Linux (Breezy)
I had a bit of a problem with the graphics, but I installed libsdl-dev and then compiled the latest version of qemu manually and it worked fine.
apt-get install libsdl-dev
The nokia n800 is a beautiful and well designed machine. Some notable improvements over the 770 include:
* handlebar / stand built in
* faster
* support for two full sd cards
* longer battery life
* camera! (though the quality isn’t too hot)
nokia is definitely onto something with these internet tablets. It would be nice if they could make the screen just a little bit wider (1024!), and add a scroll wheel to scroll up and down, because the display is so short. Of course they should also add the ability to charge via USB!
I installed osso-xterm and rhapsody today. 
Rhapsody is very nice - is this an ipod killer? Seems to have a good music library even though I could not find ‘the cuckoo’ by donovan. 
I’m trying to install debian on an HP t5000 thin client, using a USB drive as an expanded storage device for the base system. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
32MB ATA Flash memory mounted as / 175MB USB Flash as /home/ 175MB USB Flash as /usr/ 175MB USB Flash as /var/
Hopefully that setup will fix the problems I’ve been having with sda versus sdb upon reboot. This time I’ll keep the installer USB plugged in, and I’ll change the BIOS to boot off the internal flash memory first. Then I’ll do something with the installer USB drive at some point.
Nope, the 32MB was not big enough.
Will this work:
Now I’m trying to just go off of a USB drive, but having some issues… casper is reporting “Unable to find a medium containing a live file system.”
Trying this instead:
How to install Debian Etch on USB Flash memory stick
My disk is /dev/sda/ yours might not be!
shred -n 1 -z -v /dev/sda parted /dev/sda "mklabel msdos mkpartfs primary ext2 0 21 mkpartfs primary ext2 21 -0 set 1 boot on" mkdir /mnt/buildroot mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/buildroot mkdir /mnt/buildroot/boot mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/buildroot/boot debootstrap --arch i386 etch /mnt/buildroot chroot /mnt/buildroot /bin/su - ..some steps missing here... grub-install --recheck --root-directory=/mnt/buildroot /dev/sda
Crud, that didn’t work.
Hmmm.
Giving the 32MB / USB flash duo a try again. This time just using the 32MB as a /boot/ mount. Again I’ll have to tell the bios to try booting off it first, or at least put a blank usb flash drive in the installer’s place.
Sweet! Finally got it to work. The via_rhine modules doesn’t seem to work well at all… so I plugged in a linksys usb ethernet connector and it worked much better.
I keep getting these errors on startup:
usb 3-4: control timeout on ep0in
No idea…
Then the USB Flash drive got corrupted, so I’m now using an external USB 2.5 inch hard drive. Working fine, only uses 14 watts, all things considered.