[Gllug] newbie install day

[greg gulrajani]

Hello All,

I think it would be interesting if somebody did a presentation on
installing Android on various embedded devices (such as a Nokia n800)

-best
-greg



On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Christopher Hunter <cehunter at gb-x.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 07:47 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>
>>    Building your own distro from scratch is fraught with unexpected
>> problems, and would require very extensive testing.
>
> You may say that, but in my (albeit limited) experience, constructing a
> distro was actually quite easy.  My aim was to produce a distro
> dedicated to the design and programming of ASIC devices, and a day's
> work produced a cut-down distro that included all the tools I needed for
> the project and would install and run on the vast majority of PC
> hardware I tested it on.
>
> Obviously, I used a generic distro as my starting point. I chose Puppy
> Linux in this instance, as it had a very small hard disk space and
> memory requirement, so could be run on older, otherwise disused,
> hardware.  Puppy also includes the necessary tools to build "respins"
> without the need for much  effort or experience!
>
> Work on the project has stalled recently due to my serious illness, but
> I plan to get on with it soon so that I can get it to the point that it
> will be useful to a lot of electronics designers.  I will obviously then
> make it available to anyone who wants it.  I have recently used my
> (unfinished) version to design and program some PICs for a work project,
> so it's almost there...
>
> Chris
>
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