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#Burn the FreedomBox image to a microSD card from an Android phone to help users with a smartphone as their only computer install FreedomBox. There's an app called EtchDroid to do this. | |||
##On Moto G3 Turbo, EtchDroid kept crashing when I tried to write a compressed FreedomBox testing RPi2 image to a microSD card connected through a microUSB adapter. Termux has a xz-utils package which provides the unxz command. Facing disk space issues currently. | |||
#Run FreedomBox on an old Android phone | |||
#*Debian can be run on Android using https://userland.tech. Try installing the package ''freedombox'' on top of Debian | |||
#**Installed userland on a Nexus 6, installed Debian on it, upgraded to testing and installed the ''freedombox'' package. | |||
#**Both ''systemd'' and ''sudo'' do not work in a proot environment. Have to find out how to get them working. | |||
#*Try to run GNU/Linux on an Android phone and install the ''freedombox'' package on it. | |||
#**Tried installing Ubports on a Nexus 6, but it's not a supported device. Have to try on a Nexus 5 or Nexus 7. | |||
#Configure swap partitions on the internal eMMC storage of ARM devices to increase the amount of available memory. |
Latest revision as of 09:34, 8 March 2019
- Burn the FreedomBox image to a microSD card from an Android phone to help users with a smartphone as their only computer install FreedomBox. There's an app called EtchDroid to do this.
- On Moto G3 Turbo, EtchDroid kept crashing when I tried to write a compressed FreedomBox testing RPi2 image to a microSD card connected through a microUSB adapter. Termux has a xz-utils package which provides the unxz command. Facing disk space issues currently.
- Run FreedomBox on an old Android phone
- Debian can be run on Android using https://userland.tech. Try installing the package freedombox on top of Debian
- Installed userland on a Nexus 6, installed Debian on it, upgraded to testing and installed the freedombox package.
- Both systemd and sudo do not work in a proot environment. Have to find out how to get them working.
- Try to run GNU/Linux on an Android phone and install the freedombox package on it.
- Tried installing Ubports on a Nexus 6, but it's not a supported device. Have to try on a Nexus 5 or Nexus 7.
- Debian can be run on Android using https://userland.tech. Try installing the package freedombox on top of Debian
- Configure swap partitions on the internal eMMC storage of ARM devices to increase the amount of available memory.