Install meego directly on the hard disk to a netbook or IVI on-board device.

Preparations

Download the netbook or on-board image file to a local disk.
: Http://download.meego.com/trunk-daily/builds/1.1.90/latest/images/
Or http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/trunk/latest/images/

[root@woliu-desktop img]# ls
meego-netbook-ia32-trunk-daily-1.1.80.14.20110107.1.img/

Create a new disk partition and format it as an ext3 File

[root@woliu-desktop img]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytesDisk identifier: 0xd274d274   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System/dev/sda1   *           1        6375    51207156    7  HPFS/NTFS/dev/sda2            6376       30402   192990158    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)/dev/sda5            6376       10199    30716248+   b  W95 FAT32/dev/sda6           10200       13847    29296640   83  Linux/dev/sda7           13847       13971      999424   82  Linux swap / Solaris/dev/sda8           13972       21620    61440000   83  Linux/dev/sda9           21621       23252    13107200   83  Linux/dev/sda10          23252       24884    13107200   83  Linux/dev/sda11          24884       30402    44317696   83  Linux

4G space is enough, of course, the bigger the better
Don't worry, just use the ext3 file format.
Here, I use/dev/sda9 as the meego installation partition.

Create a File System

Load the image file to obtain the installation Source
mkdir /mnt/{1,2,3}
mount -o loop /work/img/meego-netbook-ia32-trunk-daily-1.1.80.14.20110107.1.img /mnt/1/
mount -o loop /mnt/1/LiveOS/squashfs.img /mnt/2/
mount -o loop /mnt/2/LiveOS/ext3fs.img /mnt/3/

Now we have obtained the installation Source
[root@woliu-desktop img]# ls /mnt/3/
bin boot dev etc home lib lost+found media mnt opt proc root sbin srv sys tmp usr var

Load empty disk partitions to install the meego System
Note: (load the/dev/sda9 partition to/mnt/4, depending on your partition status)
mkdir /mnt/4
mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/4

Copy the installation file to/mnt/4
rsync --avz --delete /mnt/3/* /mnt/4/

Add startup options in the startup configuration file

Modify fstab
[root@woliu-desktop img]# vi /mnt/4/etc/fstab

/dev/root  /         ext3    defaults,noatime 0 0devpts     /dev/pts  devpts  gid=5,mode=620   0 0tmpfs      /dev/shm  tmpfs   defaults         0 0proc       /proc     proc    defaults         0 0sysfs      /sys      sysfs   defaults         0 0

 

Modify boot items of Boot Loader

1. Prepare the kernel
cp /mnt/4/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-6.3 /boot

2. Add startup options

The operating system I use is Ubuntu 10.10 and the start manager is grub2. Therefore, I add the start item to the grub. conf file. The directory is in/boot/GRUB/grub. cfg.
menuentry 'meego' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos9)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 81273c8f-9ad0-47b2-a3a5-5041944201d2
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-6.3 root=/dev/sda9
}

Bootstrap to meego System

Restart your computer and select the meego option to start the meego system.

Remarks

I often need to reinstall the meego system, so I prefer to keep two different versions of meego for comparison.

 

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