**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Feb 08 02:59:57 2010 Feb 08 03:13:49 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing#uSD-card_Image_.28GTA02_only.29 might help, as it creates a bootable uSD, so you could learn how things have to look like. Later you could change size of ext partition to meet actual size of your uSD, and untar and copy the files of your preferred distro to the same places those files of the updater image were located Feb 08 03:16:09 please notice all these recommendations usually assume you prepare the uSD in your desktop linux's card reader rather than on the Freerunner Feb 08 03:17:18 nah, he has left anyway Feb 08 03:23:21 damn, http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qtopia_on_FreeRunner probably should be deleted all together. It's really overly complicated, outdated, and obfuscated Feb 08 03:24:37 a poor choice for noobs to start with this one Feb 08 03:25:48 ahh Feb 08 03:25:54 its all good Feb 08 03:26:20 oh yeah it is?? Feb 08 03:26:58 untar, loopback mount, tar again... I got so confused I think even I would mess it Feb 08 03:30:35 yea im a noob Feb 08 03:30:54 freaking scary, that's it. Why couldn't noobs start to download SHR.tgz and simply untar this to the uSD Feb 08 03:31:12 i tend to make things more complex than they are mostly Feb 08 03:32:12 maybe the command line syntax is all they need but its taken for granted that all know how to do this Feb 08 03:33:35 that guruplug looks like a great thing to have Feb 08 03:35:57 for this I don't need any cmdline at all. Konqueror / Ark opens .tgz just fine. then say "expand all" and when you're asked where to, give the ext3 2nd partion of your uSD inserted to the PC's cardreader as destination - or to be precisethe mountpoint your automounter used to mount this partion (usually sth like /media/card/