First “ready to use” DouDouLinux ARM™ images
By DrEagle on Tuesday 17 January 2012, 18:06 - Developers - Permalink
Here it is, the promised DoudouLinux for Genesi Efika SmartBooks! It's a 4GB SD card image, ready to boot a DoudouLinux system built on top of Debian ARM™ Squeeze (armel flavour). This is a multi-language version of DoudouLinux (US English/French):
- For Genesi/Efika SmartBook (armel)
- Preconfigured for en_US/Qwerty keyboard
- With iMX video driver
- With GPU activated
Hare are some additional technical information:
- root password efika
- Genesi's Freescale source code
- from Genesi's GIT
- compiled by DrEagle
- license Freescale “accepted”
- non-free Freescale code (binary)
- libz160 (GPU)
- base distribution: Debian Squeeze, with the following sources
- official Debian repositories
- additional Debian-multimedia repository
- custom DoudouLinux repository
You can get it from our official download pages:
- http://download.doudoulinux.org/dai... (updated once a day)
- http://download.doudoulinux.org/dai... (updated in real-time)
If you wish to check the SHA1 sum, just issue the following command:
$ sha1sum efika-ddl-armel-ENU-gpu-4Go_20120116.img.xz 4630401386747fb2c46ef33e663795fd106bde45 efika-ddl-armel-ENU-gpu-4Go_20120116.img.xz
To build your LiveSD disk, you'll need a 4GB SD card. Then use this command:
$ xzcat efika-ddl-armel-ENU-gpu-4Go_20120116.img.xz | pv | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=8192
Don't forget to replace /dev/mmcblk0 with the actual SD card device path (and please double check you're not using your internal HD!!!).
Comments
This would be great if the raspbery-pi device where to be targeted too. Nice 35 dollar pc for the kids!
For sure! Currently we're targeting very few ARM™ devices because of lack of time. However our goal is to have DoudouLinux running on any device in the future. Also if you have ARM™ skills, don't hesitate to help us do the work ;).
I have no raspbery-pi device in my collection.
Not available by now ?
I just make a preorder of a RPi !
Thanks!
DouDouLinux on a raspberry pi would be great!
First post from the coming RPi DDL...
Soon to be released but needed some tweaks before.
Is there any news of a release date for DDL for RPi? It would be amazing to see it working!
Yes! Image files for RPi are still waiting in our dailybuild section before being renamed. Look at the bottom of our dailybuild page:
http://download.doudoulinux.org/dai...
Or, if they don't show, the realtime page:
http://download.doudoulinux.org/dai...
Their name is “doudoulinux_squeeze_armel_20121120*”. As far as I know the XZ file is for Efika while the TGZ files are for RPi :).
Thanks for the quick reply!
I'm very new to all this. Would you be able to point me to any information/guide on how to write this to an SD card?
I have downloaded both the root and boot compressed files, opened them up and then tried to write the only img file I could see to an sd card using LiLiUSBCreator, but it doesn't seem to like what I'm doing! If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great.
Unfortunately no, I've never used such kind of images. I discussed with Gérald who makes the DoudouLinux ARM images and he should generate a unique full disk image, for use with a “dd” command or dd-like tools. I suppose dd can also be used with the bootfs/rootfs images but you need to make a correct partition geometry to get a working disk in the end. I understood tools exist but I can't tell you their names.
Stay tuned!
Sorry for the delay.
Here is a quick answer.
you need to partition a SD card with boot as fat and rootfs as ext3.
Then you copy the content of the tgz to 1st (fat) partition for boot and the second for root (ext3).
Then RPi may boot (or not)...
Stay tuned...