Crunchbang on AC100-10G

Blitz · 2011-12-21 07:35:05

Good morning to you all!! I have recently bought this little jewel of a netbook : Toshiba AC100-10G (http://toshiba.com.cy/pages/en/toshiba_ … =243&cat=2), which comes preinstalled with android 2.2. I have found a guide to installing Ubuntu 11.10 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100). The bad thing is that my system is slow... Is there a way to install Crunchbang Linux?

Thanx

pvsage · 2011-12-21 07:41:04

That netbook has an ARM processor, right? I think your best bet would be a Debian netinstall for your particular architecture, then install Openbox and whatever other applications you need.

rstrcogburn · 2011-12-21 07:44:28

There's no out of the box way. CrunchBang is i386 and amd64 only

but ...

Theoretically you could cross-compile all the crunchbang source packages for that architecture. and install them on a Squeeze armel install. It'd take quite a bit of hacking. http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/index.en.html#status

EDIT:

@dr. willis
didn't mean to underpost ya. was writing while you replied.

Last edited by rstrcogburn (2011-12-21 07:45:59)

Blitz · 2011-12-21 07:49:57

What buffles me is this :

"Installation

The installation is done in two phases:

Flashing the bootimage

Make sure the battery is full on the AC100, or that the charger is connected.
Shut down the AC100.
Connect the mini-usb from the AC100 to your host computer. The mini-usb socket is on the right side, left of the power-connector.
Put netbook in recovery mode by booting with CTRL and ESC buttons held down. The screen stays off while the power led lights up.
On your host computer, open a terminal and run:
nvflash --bl /usr/lib/nvflash/fastboot.bin --download 6 /path/to/ubuntu-11.10-preinstalled-desktop-armel+ac100.bootimg
NOTE: the path and name of fastboot.bin might vary, the guide uses version from http://share.grandou.net
Once nvflash is finished and prints out a message stating success, turn off the AC100 by pressing on the power button for several seconds.
Installing the preinstalled rootfs

Copy ubuntu-11.10-preinstalled-desktop-armel+ac100.tar.gz to a USB stick as a regular file on the first partition. NOTE: DO NOT UNPACK OR DD THE TARBALL, JUST COPY! Make sure the md5sum is alright after copying to the media.
Reboot with the USB stick inserted and follow the simple instructions. Overall it does one reboot and in total can take about 20-30 minutes."

So i am afraid it will be tricky to find the .bootimg. Maybe my questions sound stupid, it is because i am a complete noob (still!!!)

pvsage · 2011-12-21 08:54:58

Yeah, those instructions seem to be for a custom Ubuntu ARM bootimage. Since CrunchBang is Debian, and there are ever-increasing differences between Ubuntu and its Debian roots, those instructions aren't really relevant if you want to build something like CrunchBang on a Debian base.

I'm trying to find a Debian-based LiveUSB that's pre-baked for ARM (should make things a lot easier for you)...not having much luck...

Kuno · 2011-12-21 10:00:16

Here's another instructional site for ubuntu-install. Don't know bout installing #! on the AC100, but my experience from desktop-installs tells me, that the difference between crunchified ubuntu and original #! in terms of speediness isn't that great...

Link: http://salaliitto.com/~gildean/ac100/wiki/phh/

Blitz · 2011-12-21 10:30:38

I seem to have identified the problem : http://ac100.grandou.net/links?s[]=l4t , the tegra drivers for the laptop which are in .tar.gz format. Does anyone know how to install them (i may have drifted from my own thread tongue )

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Crunchbang on AC100-10G

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