From 9853ba1f43f988ac8fefb759e976c9069060a7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Staszel Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:05:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Added more information to the androidphone README --- androidphones/README | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 androidphones/README diff --git a/androidphones/README b/androidphones/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c597c63bd --- /dev/null +++ b/androidphones/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +This directory is to develop a way to boot Plugbox +on Android phones (HTC for now?). + +==== On the Phone ==== +- Any ROM, rooted +- A big SD card - Plugbox needs at least 300MB to work nicely +- Terminal Emulator from the Android Market +- "adb" from the Android SDK base package +- USB debugging mode enabled in Settings + +==== Preparing an image ==== + +You'll need to make an ext2 image file (for now). +Download Plugbox as a .tar.gz file, +use dd if=/dev/zero of=plugbox.img count=10000000 +then mkfs.ext2 plugbox.img (answer yes to force it), +mount -o loop plugbox.img ./plugboxmountfolder +then extract the rootfs into there, without a kernel or anything. +Unmount the image, put it in the ./plugbox folder found here, +and then copy that entire folder to /sdcard/ on your phone, +so it looks like /sdcard/plugbox/plugbox.img, etc. + +More soon.