NITDroid-N900 DualBoot Howto Part 1

part one of video howto on getting nitdroid running in dualmood config on the n900.

details and required files are all available at the following forum post http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=49811

contact details if anyone wants more info on this are below
website: www.nitdroid.com
twitter: dmonsterprod

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nitdroid
• android
• n900
• howto
• maemo

[360NextLevel]

is a memory card neccessary for this or can we partition the onboard memory?

[djsteve1030]

@360NextLevel yes as its not easy nor wise to repartition the internal flash (and memory cards are cheaper if they die than 32gb of nand flash will be

[gviterbo]

djsteve1030, are you using a linux vm to do linux commands in this tutorial? thanks!

[djsteve1030]

@gviterbo no im using a ssh session to my linux development pc

[sslmm]

Thanks for the video and nice job ;)

One question :what is the program that you use in the video to do the partitions on the card?

[djsteve1030]

@sslmm fdisk

[zzzzterrelzzzz]

apparently you need a 8gb card but it worked fine with my 4gb card and i still had 1gb memory free

[hhmah]

i dont rali kno how to start, can u help, how did u get all this writing when u first opened it.. wht programe did u use

thank u

[zuja59]

Is there any way to recover N900? It seems i bricked it...and now my N900 won't turn on, that Uboot thing pops up and turns off my phone.

[zuja59]

Dude you suck at explaining.

[almightyhaggis2002]

why dont you just partition it using console on ur n900?

[XpliciTTRecords]

like alien tongue ... lost me at "idk how Ima do this" lol