Debian

Quick flash install

Connect your Nanonote to your host computer and boot the Nanonote into USB Boot mode as you would normally perform a flash. Run the script below to install Debian Lenny mini on your Nanonote:

 #!/bin/sh -e
 # This script flashes Debian Lenny mini onto a Ben Nanonote.
 # Niklas A. Femerstrand <qnrq@pipemail.org>
 
 echo 'Finding attached Nanonote...'
 lsusb | grep 601a:4740
 echo 'Fetching requirements...'
 wget http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/software/images/NanoNote/Ben/latest/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin
 wget http://pyneo.org/downloads/nano/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-uImage.bin
 wget http://pyneo.org/downloads/nano/debian-lenny-mini.ubi
 echo 'Flashing...'
 usbboot -c "boot"
 usbboot -c "nerase 0 4096 0 0"
 usbboot -c "boot"
 usbboot -c "nprog 0 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin 0 0 -n"
 usbboot -c "nprog 1024 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-uImage.bin 0 0 -n"
 usbboot -c "nprog 2048 debian-lenny-mini.ubi 0 0 -n"
 echo 'Done!'

When the script has finished its execution, simply reboot your Nanonote. In the setup tty1 (the active console after boot) is dedicated to logging and does not show a login. Activate the second console (Alt-F2 or Alt-Right) to get a login prompt.

Prepare SD card

1. umount /dev/sdb1
2. fdisk /dev/sdb (make sure the /dev/sdb is your SD card. you can check that by 'dmesg' message)

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
        switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
        sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 1

Command (m for help): n
Command action
  e   extended
  p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (2-129651, default 2): 
Using default value 2
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (2-129651, default 129651): +2G

Command (m for help): n
Command action
  e   extended
  p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (67653-129651, default 67653): 
Using default value 67653
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (67653-129651, default 129651): 
Using default value 129651

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

1. sudo mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1

Install Debian to SD Card

1. wget http://mister-muffin.de/nanonote/debian-sid-mipsel.tar.lzma
2. tar xvf debian-sid-mipsel.tar.lzma -C /PATH/TO/YOUR/SDCARD/
3. wget http://pyneo.org/downloads/nano/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-uImage.bin
4. cp openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-uImage.bin /PATH/TO/YOUR/SDCARD/boot/uImage

Prepare bootloader:

1. refresh the last U-Boot(make sure your U-Boot is after 2010-09-14). after reflash uboot we can press [M] when power-on to boot from sd card. then "apt-get update" :-)

$ wget http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/software/images/NanoNote/Ben/testing/2010-09-14/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin
$ sudo usbboot -c "boot;nprog 0 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin 0 0 -n"

Alternative Installation Method

How to install Debian by running the Debian Installer on the Nanonote.

Setup swapfile

You will surely need it since you'll get a lot of complains when, for instance, depackaging stuff.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
# mkswap /swapfile
# swapon /swapfile

To enable it at boot time, edit /etc/fstab to include: /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

Install Package

# apt-get install fbterm emacs23-nox

Screenshot

Framebuffer utils

  apt-get install fbterm

gives you a slightly smaller font.

  fbterm --font-size=8

for me is in the readability limit :)

  apt-get install fbi

nice image viewer.

 apt-get install tudu
 apt-get install tina

todo managers

For PIM: I tried abook, but it needs minimum terminal size of 70x20. You can get it with fbterm --font-size=7, but it is hardly readable.

gmu on debian

After some fiddling with libraries, got it working on debian. A very nice and lightweight music player. Runs very smoothly :)

an important final detail was to add the correct fb mode to /etc/fb.modes: (just the output of fbset)

   mode "320x240-103"
     # D: 19.884 MHz, H: 27.090 kHz, V: 103.005 Hz
     geometry 320 240 320 240 32
     timings 50291 140 273 20 2 1 1
     rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
   endmode

Working on packaging in - calamarz

Mplayer

 apt-get install mplayer

Use this script to transcode video. Holy cow, it works!

TODO: package ingenic patched version that profits the IPU.

Compiling Kernel

Debian/Kernel using the openwrt toolchain