Has anyone successfully run Backtrack 5 on the photon? In theory it should work, i think? Including link below to it being run on a Moto Xoom. My question is could this be run on the Photon? If so, it wouldn't require an unlocked bootloader, right? And how would you boot to it, just like a normal app in appdrawer or would it have to be in some sort of dual boot mode? Nooby questions i know, but just want to play around with my Photon and see what it can do. I do have an SBF file ready incase i manage to screw it up haha. Thanks guys
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074723
(thinks he needs to add BT5 repos to UbunTop)
Lokifish has a version of Ubuntu running in webtop, I am certain the same could be done with almost any Linux distro - ubuntu is just more popular for day to day use.
What it funny is I was talking to a guy in my class that is trying to add backtrack 5 to his evo 3d. I'll have to see next week if he is successful.
This is something that i see possible with the linux webtop they are working on anyone good with linux?
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Is it now possible to install Ubuntu on the Nook Tablet? - not as a stand-alone Operating System, but as a process running from the Android environment, as has been done for the Nook Color .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10306407#post10306407
This site .. http://androlinux.com/android-ubuntu-development/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-android/ .. states 'First of all, you should have your Android device “rooted” because you need root access to run Ubuntu off your Android. Second, your Android OS must support loop devices.' - are these conditions met now with the Nook Tablet?
The emphasis of the above articles is on using Ubuntu as an alternative desktop system to Android.
I see a second reason, though, for doing this - running a Ubuntu server on the tablet gives you access to all the server packages that are available with Ubuntu - eg. Apache2/PHP, MySql, Postgres - maybe not useful if you are connected to a network, but potentially useful if you have a field tablet (ie. with no connectivity) that you want to develop database applications for.
Edit: ignore me......
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You're asking whether you can follow a tutorial you yourself posted? Why don't you try, and let us know?
There may be kernel modules you need missing, but other than that there isn't a reason the same thing done on the NC wouldn't work on the NT. All you need is a rooted NT (the NT has been rooted for a while)—the NT's locked bootloader is irrelevant for a chroot.
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You're asking whether you can follow a tutorial you yourself posted? Why don't you try, and let us know?
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Mmm .. I would if I had a Nook Tablet, but I'm still working out whether to get a Nook Color or Nook Tablet - hence my interest in the question I'm asking. Of course, if I can do what I want with the NT, then that will be better than the NC because the NT is better hardware.
But, thanks for the other info.
And yes, I am hoping that someone with a Nook Tablet might be able to help answer this question.
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Mmm .. I would if I had a Nook Tablet, but I'm still working out whether to get a Nook Color or Nook Tablet - hence my interest in the question I'm asking. Of course, if I can do what I want with the NT, then that will be better than the NC because the NT is better hardware.
But, thanks for the other info.
And yes, I am hoping that someone with a Nook Tablet might be able to help answer this question.
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Ubuntu on the nook color is not very far along. I just added a nook tablet to my nook color household. I have a motorola phone with webtop and there are a ton of hacks to get it to work that have prevented updating ubuntu.
If you want a tablet that runs ubuntu, look into an x86 tablet.
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We are running linux kernel, so as long as chroot is there (it is) then we can run (almost) any linux distro. This stuff is (relatively) easy and there interwebs are instructions on it dating back to the g1 days that still work.
Gentoo works for sure, i'm sure ubuntu does as would debian no doubt. i'm pretty sure there is an arm port of arch linux out there too. The main thing is to get the ARM version of your distribution of choice, and then look into running it under "chroot"
I'd probably go with debian over ubuntu. Seems simpler/easier for this kind of thing.
i've got a gentoo chroot running just fine on my NT. Don't do that btw. Deciding to emerge glibc just before bedtime--over adb. Now all you really wanna do is go to bed and read a couple chapters while you fall asleep but you can't because you thought it would be a good idea to compile glibc...on your tablet...tied to your pc...not that i would know
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We are running linux kernel, so as long as chroot is there (it is) then we can run (almost) any linux distro. This stuff is (relatively) easy and there interwebs are instructions on it dating back to the g1 days that still work.
Gentoo works for sure, i'm sure ubuntu does as would debian no doubt. i'm pretty sure there is an arm port of arch linux out there too. The main thing is to get the ARM version of your distribution of choice, and then look into running it under "chroot"
I'd probably go with debian over ubuntu. Seems simpler/easier for this kind of thing.
i've got a gentoo chroot running just fine on my NT. Don't do that btw. Deciding to emerge glibc just before bedtime--over adb. Now all you really wanna do is go to bed and read a couple chapters while you fall asleep but you can't because you thought it would be a good idea to compile glibc...on your tablet...tied to your pc...not that i would know
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We may need a tranquilizer dart for you. I think we also need to ban you from all nook tablets.
Also, you should help me get backtrack 5 running on the device so I can see if our wifi chip supports injection.
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i've got a gentoo chroot running just fine on my NT. Don't do that btw. Deciding to emerge glibc just before bedtime--over adb. Now all you really wanna do is go to bed and read a couple chapters while you fall asleep but you can't because you thought it would be a good idea to compile glibc...on your tablet...tied to your pc...not that i would know
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Gentoo is a very good Base for Crossdeveloping. You can employ a Crossdev toolchain for ARM or you can use your ARM Plattform to build native and use distcc to accelerate the Process.
I had Gentoo already on Plattforms like mips (Octane), Alpha and PPC
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We are running linux kernel, so as long as chroot is there (it is) then we can run (almost) any linux distro. This stuff is (relatively) easy and there interwebs are instructions on it dating back to the g1 days that still work.
Gentoo works for sure, i'm sure ubuntu does as would debian no doubt. i'm pretty sure there is an arm port of arch linux out there too. The main thing is to get the ARM version of your distribution of choice, and then look into running it under "chroot"
I'd probably go with debian over ubuntu. Seems simpler/easier for this kind of thing.
i've got a gentoo chroot running just fine on my NT. Don't do that btw. Deciding to emerge glibc just before bedtime--over adb. Now all you really wanna do is go to bed and read a couple chapters while you fall asleep but you can't because you thought it would be a good idea to compile glibc...on your tablet...tied to your pc...not that i would know
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There is a Linux installer in Market. Good luck on getting it to work. The drivers required to get a functional desktop running on ARM hardware is pretty limited and mostly closed.
If it was as easy as you say all the Motorola webtop phones would be upgraded to Oneric. As it stands my Atrix will only run Jaunty, because that's what came on it.
If you know some secret please contribute to the webtop forums like the Attic, Bionic and Photon. They have been trying for months.
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There is a Linux installer in Market. Good luck on getting it to work. The drivers required to get a functional desktop running on ARM hardware is pretty limited and mostly closed.
If it was as easy as you say all the Motorola webtop phones would be upgraded to Oneric. As it stands my Atrix will only run Jaunty, because that's what came on it.
If you know some secret please contribute to the webtop forums like the Attic, Bionic and Photon. They have been trying for months.
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Drivers are a nonissue. Im sure youve noticed the nook comes with support for it's storage and filesystems and networking out of the box. If the nook didnt come with working linux drivers we wouldnt have a working nook.
The difference between gnu/linux amd android is just the userland. So put a working userland of your favorite linux distro in /data/local, mount the dev proc and sys filesystems, chroot. Boom gnu/linux. All drivers provided and working.
It's not a secret. As a matter of a fact it's how most linux installers on the pc work and as was mentioned earlier how many people develop for embedded platforms like android to begin with.
FYI, there is a developer thread for Ubuntu App on the NT ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394329
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Is it now possible to install Ubuntu on the Nook Tablet? - not as a stand-alone Operating System, but as a process running from the Android environment, as has been done for the Nook Color .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10306407#post10306407
This site .. http://androlinux.com/android-ubuntu-development/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-android/ .. states 'First of all, you should have your Android device “rooted” because you need root access to run Ubuntu off your Android. Second, your Android OS must support loop devices.' - are these conditions met now with the Nook Tablet?
The emphasis of the above articles is on using Ubuntu as an alternative desktop system to Android.
I see a second reason, though, for doing this - running a Ubuntu server on the tablet gives you access to all the server packages that are available with Ubuntu - eg. Apache2/PHP, MySql, Postgres - maybe not useful if you are connected to a network, but potentially useful if you have a field tablet (ie. with no connectivity) that you want to develop database applications for.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354002&page=12
Loglud answered the Ubuntu question post#113 YouTube video
I was just wondering hoe many people would like to run windows or Ubuntu on this beast of a tablet. I can't wait to see some development on this thing!
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really? another thread about this?
to answer this so it can be locked or merged:
1. let's stop speculating about an OS which is at least 7 months if not a year out (for ARM) techincally windows will be able to run, but getting it to run is going to depend on a lot of things we don't have details about.
2. ubuntu should be portable, it's going to depend on the bootloader to a fair degree as to how easy it is to do.
Well someone needs to take a breath lol. I was just wondering.
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Well someone needs to take a breath lol. I was just wondering.
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To be fair, you are like the 10th person to ask this question about a separate OS then the one it comes with. The answers is no one knows. Just like no one knows if Win8 will be worth a damn.
Windows 8... maybe, but there's an awful lot of unknowns there.
I'd love to have the Prime dual-boot with a Linux distro though, and that seems quite feasible (though the bootloader is an unknown; I have faith in XDA though!). That really would make it into a full netbook.
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Well someone needs to take a breath lol. I was just wondering.
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in the time it took to open this thread you could have found that it has already been covered.
in this day of instant information, it just irks me when people don't take the time to find what's already there.
yungballla6 said:
I was just wondering hoe many people would like to run windows or Ubuntu on this beast of a tablet. I can't wait to see some development on this thing!
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Idk about win8 (like others have said there's a thread for that) but as for linux, many devices have been able to boot Ubuntu and bt5 on top with root using chroot and androidvnc. I'm sure it will work considering I've run both on my g2x. There's a thread here on xda for those but currently at work and don't have efficient access to that link. Think its in the nexus s forums?
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Im more excited about the possibilities of ICS than anything. Its different in many ways to whats out there (ginger and HC). I think there are more possibilities with stock ICD ROM than ports of any other kind. Maybe in 6 months, IF the flavor runs out, I MIGHT think going that route. But honestly, why????
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Im more excited about the possibilities of ICS than anything. Its different in many ways to whats out there (ginger and HC). I think there are more possibilities with stock ICD ROM than ports of any other kind. Maybe in 6 months, IF the flavor runs out, I MIGHT think going that route. But honestly, why????
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not as a permanent solution... backtrack5 is a pentesting distro... with the right drivers/nics, the prime can become a HACKPAD :-S
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not as a permanent solution... backtrack5 is a pentesting distro... with the right drivers/nics, the prime can become a HACKPAD :-S
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If your a hacker or linux based nerd, then I get Ubuntu. power is king in code crunching. But Windows? Anyone needing windows on the move is 90% working. I dont think you need that much power for that.
If i could boot a windows 8 install off an SD Card in the dock i would be alllllllllllll about that.
i want to put the blackberry playbook OS on it, but emulated inside ICS, and then i can run android apps, emulated through the playbook OS, which is emulated through android. possibly while running an snes emulator.
it's going to be so meta, and you all will be so jealous. :|
There are many threads about Windows 8. The Prime has the Tegra 3 chip which will be supported in Windows 8 and most likely several Linux flavors. We'll see. No let's stop discussing this for the next couple months.
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not as a permanent solution... backtrack5 is a pentesting distro... with the right drivers/nics, the prime can become a HACKPAD :-S
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best comment ever!!!! love backtrack, also looking forward to get tf prime.
THAT WOULD BE AN AMAZING DEVICE!! (much better than my girlfriend )
benzas said:
best comment ever!!!! love backtrack, also looking forward to get tf prime.
THAT WOULD BE AN AMAZING DEVICE!! (much better than my girlfriend )
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well im studying both networking and pentesting, why not be able to do everything i need on one device? just need drivers for my awus036h (or maybe the wifi chip has support for monitor mode which is very unlikely :/ )
Will you be able to run MS excel with VB editing and running it if/when prime gets Win 8?
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well im studying both networking and pentesting, why not be able to do everything i need on one device? just need drivers for my awus036h (or maybe the wifi chip has support for monitor mode which is very unlikely :/ )
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same here.
At the moment the solution that worked for original Transformer and phones was ok but I would love to actually boot it off a usb drive or SDcard and not have to run the GUI over VNC.
Although Backtrack devs have said that the ARM image released is only for testing and they wont be supporting it. Hopefully they start to fully support it as tablets become more powerful.
Hey does android run on this thing?
/sarcasm
Windows 8 Thread from NOVEMBER: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1365283
What? Microsoft missed their mark here. I don't see them making a dent on the tablet market that it's rival Google has a hold of.
Is there such a thing? I saw a article that best buy was running a Droid Eris with Windows 7. Where can I get this and how stable is it? This thread is intended for Eris only. Looking for a Windows 7 ROM/OS for the HTC Droid Eris. I am using Amon_RA recovery now and my phones (2) are both on Cricket Carrier plans.
I think you've been misled. There are so many reasons that no matter what you try you'll never get Windows 7, assuming you mean the desktop Windows 7, running on the Eris. I doubt if you could get Windows Phone 7 running on the Eris, either. AFAIK, there's never been any version of Windows 7 compiled for ARM processors, only for x86 and x86-64. Even if it were, the hardware constraints of the Eris would be completely ludicrous to expect it to run a huge Windows 7 installation, even if the ROM actually ran from the SD card, which would be the only way it would fit since the internal flash memory of the Eris is too small.
I did a quick Google search and I couldn't easily find the article you mention. Do you have a link?
There is a launcher that looks like windows though. That's about as close as your going to get. There's a launcher that looks like desktop and another that looks like mobile.
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Wp7 was coded to only work with snapdragon processors. Running at 1ghz. If I remember correctly the Eris is somewhere in the ballpark of 518mhz.
If someone would've put the time and effort into rebuilding wp7 it could be possible. But why?
The Eris is the toughest and hardest to kill android phone I've ever played with
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Can someone post a link to the launcher that looks like WP7?
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Can someone post a link to the launcher that looks like WP7?
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i cant make any promises... but probably within the next few days im gonna make some cm7 ports and see what i can do with them.. currently my eris is on simple mobile so i cant test mms or anything until i find a way to flash it back..
this was my first android... and i just got my hands back on it... my fascinate is a PITA with reading my sdcards.. so i think i may show the eris community some love..
expect lg ui moto touchwiz xperia wp7/8 and maybe more.. but those will be my priorities.. if i can learn how aroma works i may make a all in one flashable... just gotta give me time to relearn the device and see whats been done in the few years since i last used it
Hi all!
As this is my first post, i apologies in advance in case i'm not following some of the proper ways, is such the case, please let me know.
I have search and can't find any thread about this, so here i'm writing.
So, i need to drop the android from the atrix phone and install a native linux on it.
I don't need all the phone functionality, but i DO need access to use all the hardware (i'm planning to use this as an industrial grade motherboard)
Right now my problem is that i have recompile kerner, initrd, even system, but i can't get the linux working properly... my big problem is that i can't initialize the console (no via native screen or hdmi :S) i have try the CM7 kernel and a compiled by my self kernel also, but no way.
I have lots of experience on linux on pc, but this is my first working on a arm or a android based board/phone.
Can someone give me a hand or guide me thou?
Or maybe there is an img there with what i need and i can't find it?
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
You'll need to search but I'm pretty sure I saw where a functional edition of Ubuntu was ported to the Atrix about a year ago. I'm not sure how far they took it though.
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You'll need to search but I'm pretty sure I saw where a functional edition of Ubuntu was ported to the Atrix about a year ago. I'm not sure how far they took it though.
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I have search it and can't find it :S (maybe the project never go far enough?)
Thanks!
There is no Linux replacement for Android on the Atrix. Best you will do is to use Ubuntop, Gentop, etc., as Webtop replacements.
Wee bit of searching and you would have known this.
Cheers!
Hey guys, I recently got a new hard drive for my computer and I have the old 80 gig sitting around. I also have my old HTC Aria from when I was on AT&T. I am thinking of either building a CM rom or porting one over to it. Which ever one is easier. I have no Android development experience, so I figured this would be a good way to get my feet in the water.
I would like to hear from some people with some experience. Would Ubuntu or Windows running Ubuntu through a VM be best? Are there any little tips to make things easier? Thanks in advance!
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So do you have a machine you can dedicate to building roms or are you going to be using your main machine?
I'd put linux on it if it's a stand alone build box, otherwise if you need Windows on your main machine, go with a VM.
You can follow the steps in the how to build CM10.1 guide to set things up once you have a booted linux OS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1920107
Since you're building for a different phone, you'll wanna poke around that section of XDA to look for a repository to build from vs using the CM10.1 rezound repository...
Thanks! I will be using my main PC but have a dedicated hard drive just for developing. I am familiar with Ubuntu, if I didn't do a lot of audio editing and work with AutoCAD, I would use it instead of windows. I imagine Ubuntu would work perfectly, right?
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mjones already linked to my guide in Development which is based around Ubuntu.
If you want to do more than just compile preexisting code, you're going to want to get familiar with git, repo, and the layout of code in AOSP. Guides on that are hard to come by, and TBH, trial and error is how I learned things on that front.