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How to build Meego images (a.k.a moblin 2.2)

These are not official builds. Nor are they official instructions. Follow at your own risk !
Download link : (647MB). Alternate link here .
If you're even lazier here are some pictures and videos of it running!

Part 1 : Build environment
Skip to part2 if you allready have MIC2 or if you have no intention of using fedora
I used Fedora 10, simply because there was a repo for the MIC2 (tool to make images for moblin). For a quick install download a vmware image off thoughtpolice. (the root password is thoughtpolice!).

I'm not sure this is needed but selinux complains during the build and it's notoriously annoying so I disabled it.

system-config-selinux

Add this as moblin_tools.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/:

[MoblinTools]
name=Moblin fc10 tools
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://repo.moblin.org/moblin/tools/fc10/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Now we install mic2. (and all it's dependancies...). Load the squashfs module just to make sure

sudo yum install mic2
sudo modprobe squashfs

Part 2 : making the image!
The Intel/Nokia people very kindly hide away some premade images :

http://repo.meego.com/trunk/repo/ia32/os/image-config/

You can either use their default.ks image or my brendan.ks image with the time and keyboard fixed so that it works in the uk ;-)

moblin-image-creator -c brendan.ks -f liveusb

To burn it to a USB stick use:

dd bs=4096 if=moblin-brendan-201002191551.usbimg of=/dev/sdx

You'll find your root user has the following property in the live USB image:

user : root
Password : moblin

Notes :
- I've found my clutter interface usually crashes on the first load. Doing an init 3 and then init 5 in a tty terminal as root usually fixes it.

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10 Responses to “How to build Meego images (a.k.a moblin 2.2)”

  1. MeeGo Community Dynamics: The Battle for the Third Estate of Mobile Devices | Maemo Nokia N900 Says:
    February 20th, 2010 at 18:37

    [...] mobile devices. This is be based on the Intel Moblin platform. One Moblin developer has written How to build Meego images (a.k.a moblin 2.2) and another has information on updating the Broadcom drivers for running Moblin on a Dell [...]

  2. Nuvie Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 03:56

    Thanks for the info!

    I could only get my USA/default build on Fedora 10, but it worked. Too bad the system isn't as nice as 2.1 ... sure, the wireless and graphics driver problems are fixed, but Chromium is no substitute for Firefox (which crashes a lot, yikes!) and the icons are less Toys-R-Us (is that good or bad?) not to mention the default resolution being too *tall* for my 1024x768 monitor (the monitor preference app also crashes, heh).

    I know, I'm a whiny user, but I'm no alpha tester guru, just a kid looking for a nice free HTPC GUI :) Fingers crossed for Moblin GUI support to really come to Debian/Gnome.

  3. Votan Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 16:10

    Is anyone of u guys still haveing the image ? I'd love to try it out myelf, but apprently they pulled the images off the site :/

  4. Brendan Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 17:06

    Sorry, the repo has been pulled down.

    The premade image is still there since they are hosted by me. (well google ;-) )

    @nuvie - try executing xrandr commands by hand, that might work

  5. MeeGo comincia a prendere forma sui Netbook! E l'N900? Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 17:26

    [...] Se volete testare MeeGo tramite USB sul vostro Netbook, potete scaricare il file ISO direttamente da QUI. Se invece siete intenzionati di creare la build da soli, potete trovare maggiori informazioni QUI. [...]

  6. simone Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 20:35

    it's very strange: after dd command, when i select boot from usb, my asus says that there isn't any o.s. :o

  7. Brendan Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 23:17

    Things to check:
    - Are you sure you did it to /dev/sdx and not /dev/sdx1?
    - did you extract the .tar.bz2 with the tar j option?
    - different usb stick
    - Are you sure you did dd with the opion 'bs=4096' ?
    - Can your board even boot a syslinux stick?
    - Make sure you select the right key on boot.
    - make sure md5sum of the USB image is : aca732ac08a583fbe483240f6fb473c3 moblin-brendan-201002191551.usbimg

    That's all I can think of! Good luck

  8. simone Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 09:49

    /dev/sdb1 because i have 3 partiotions on the flash memory..later i'm trying to "burn" the usbimg with a single partition and the dommand /dev/sdb

    thank you

  9. Brendan Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 10:41

    You can't do that. You need to use /dev/sdb and it will wipe the flash drive. If your content is important you will need to back it up.

  10. simone Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 17:05

    solved :)
    and MeeGo, now, doesn't support Ext4 filesystem..

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