My Linux Fun

I got Linux Puppy Live CD
(installed to my HDD as i liked it so much)to format my CF card using Gparted
which is in the control panel once Puppy has booted http://www.puppylinux.org/user/news_cats.php?cat_id=2
I made at Fat16 of 32Mb and ext2 on the rest of my Peak 2 Gig CF the flagged the Fat16 partition as bootable
LINUX
Then i got the 720degrees-debian-sarge-base.tar.bz2 file from
http://stevenwiki.homedns.org/720/files/720degrees-debian-sarge-bas... and extract it to your ext2 partition once you have mounted your partition,there is a GUI to mount all your partitions just click on the USB StICK icon then click mount to mount partitions,click ROX to view partitions,click
720degrees-debian-sarge-base.tar.bz2 and extract to your ext2 partition,in my case it is/dev/sdb2

Then get the initrd, modules, and vmlinuz files from http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~simigern/jornada-7xx/linu...
Extract the modules to your ext2 partition and put vmlinuz and initrd on your fat16 partition , /dev/sdb1 in my case
oh also the params.txt from http://stevenwiki.homedns.org/720/files/params.txt
onto your fat16 partition and edit it to suit your files.

Then add keychain file to your ext2 partition from http://stevenwiki.homedns.org/720/720deg_key.asc and then login as root and browse to where your key file is then do

apt-key add 720deg_key.asc 

then

base-config new 

,add the following ftp repositories :
deb http://www.720degrees.org/apt/ stable main
deb http://www.720degrees.org/apt/ testing main
also the ftp.uk.debian.org ones aswell.
Dont choose any other options just end the setup and login as a user now that you have set that up ,
then

su 

and then

apt-get update

in console.
now you can

apt-get install xserver-kdrive

and then

apt-get install icewm 

.
After install exit su mode,then as user do

startx

I have seen some people complain that IceWM will only start in root mode i would suggest you run in su SuperUser mode instead if that is the case

Also

echo disable >/proc/j720_hacks/pcmcia  

will stop suspend/off pcmcia crash problem

More to follow after i get my new broadband and i will update with actual screenshot pics


Edited by hagisbasheruk 2007-02-19 2:44 PM

Hagisbasheruk - you know, this would be a nice thread on the 720degrees forum so those users can see too.

Yes, I have often thought that Puppy would be the best live distro to install 720degrees with. However, with all my computers already running Linux, I did not check myself. Thanks for the confirmation, and nice tutorial.

i'll stick one up tommorow ProgramSynthesiser its 00.10 now and i'll do screenshots for each stage also

Excellent. A graphical tutorial is so much easier for users to follow. We might use that idea on a new site revision sometime.

Okay i have posted Tutorial on http://forums.720degrees.net/viewtopic.php?p=772#772 which i will do a more complete howto type of post

Edited by hagisbasheruk 2007-02-20 7:31 AM

I moved it to Guides. http://forums.720degrees.net/viewtopic.php?t=107 - there now.