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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Installing Debian6 on RB-100

So here I am with tutorial on installing Debian6 on RB-100. You may ask why debian? why not windows or ubuntu?
Because first of all debian is much more stable than either of them and second of all I found tutorial to install debian much easier.
I followed Joorie Overgoore's method to install debian(I hope it works for ubuntu also but never tried it).

Let's begin it now.

First of all get a 12V DC power source(it should be able to deliver 300mA of current for 4 hours continously),a lot of jumper,an ethernet cable, a pendrive(4 GB or more),a memory card(preferably 8 GB but 4 will work) and of course a card reader.Don't forget to install "Gparted" on your linux system. Use it to convert your memory card into an ext4 filesystem.

Prepare the Ro-Board i.e. attach the peripherals to it following this guide.

Now download following files
  • Debian 6 iso(the link)
  • The kernel for RoBoard (the link)

Afterwards I followed this tutorial to install debian on my RoBoard.

Now as for the installation of GUI  goes you can select the option to install "standard desktop environment" while installing the operating system.(This will install minimal gnome3 desktop but I personally recommend xfce4 desktop as the later is lighter on resources.)

For installing xfce4 you have to modify your sources list first using vi editor(sorry can't do anything about it).Basically you have to list out the web-address from where apt-get will fetch the files.Modify it using this.

Afterwards you can install xfce4 by typing this
apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xorg alsa-base alsa-utils hal udev gdm xfce4 thunar-archive-plugin

Now type this
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

now you have to reboot or type gdm to see the xfce gui installed.
You should get the screen like this.

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