LiveCD
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Note: This appears to only be for Maemo 1.1
The Maemo Live CD is a Knoppix (in fact Kanotix) based distribution that contains a pre-built Maemo Environment as well as scratchbox for developing applications. Thus the Live CD can be used for demonstrating the Maemo GUI and for developing applications without having to install scratchbox.
Since the Live CD is still alpha quality you might run into one of the issues listed at the bottom of the page.
Grab the latest version from:
http://cdprojekte.mattiasschlenker.de/Public/Maemo_Live/
If you already have downloaded an earlier version, please download just the xdelta-file and use xdelta to patch the ISO file!
Usage
You can use the Live CD just like any Knoppix CD to boot directly into an XFCE desktop with a running Xvnc and a scratchbox terminal. In this terminal you can start the Maemo GUI and applications.
Since version 0.5a it is also possible to work over a TCP/IP network, either between physically connected machines or between a host machine running VMware or Virtual PC. For this purpose, the scratchbox directory is available as samba share, SSH login is allowed and the Maemo GUI is exported via Xvnc (Screenshot).
1 . Boot the Maemo Live-CD. If you do not need the GUI, edit the "kernel" line in grub and add "3" to boot to runlevel 3.
1 . Use your favourite SSH-Client to log in to the Maemo box. Login is "knoppix", password is "maemo".
1 . Set some environment variables:
export DISPLAY=localhost:3.0
export LANGUAGE=en_GB
1 . Start the Maemo GUI
/scratchbox/login
af-sb-init.sh start
1 . Use your favourite VNC-Viewer to connect to Xvnc, do not forget to connect to "ip-address:3", since Xvnc is running on display 3.
1 . A Samba server provides access to /home, /tmp and /scratchbox.
Known issues
The kanotix-installer works only after stopping the scratchbox-core service.
If you plan to install the live CD to a hard disk, name the first user "knoppix" otherwise you will have to fix the scratchbox configuration.
There are no games available yet. (come on, this is not the purpose of this liveCD)
If the Maemo GUI does not come up properly, stop it and start it again
Neither Xnest nor Xvnc work perfectly. We will include Xephyr in future releases.
/scratchbox/packages/Maemo_Dev_Platform_RS_v1.0_arm.tgz is unavailable : you can't build packages targeting the arm processor running maemo on Nokia 770
If you run into a problem not listed here or have a request for a feature you may send an email to mattias@schlenker-webdesign.de.
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