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Model Specific Forums => Gemini PDA => Gemini PDA - Linux => Topic started by: gabs5807 on August 26, 2019, 10:32:26 am
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Hello,
here a quick HowTo to install gemian beside a licensed SailfishOS on the PDA.
I use a Scatter file from planet partitioning tool with following settings:
First: SailfishOS
Second: recovery
Third: empty (it seems, that there also is the sailfishos_boot.img flushed like at First)
Fourth: TWRP
After downloading all files from Planet and Jolly i modified the content of the .../etc/sysconfig/init from the ramdisk on the sailfishos_boot.img:
# Common settings for normal and recovery init.
# Amount of space to keep unallocated for refilling root or home later on.
LVM_RESERVED_MB=20480
# Default size for root LV
LVM_ROOT_SIZE=4096
Then i rebuild the ramdisk and the sailfishos_boot.img.
After installation there is 20G free space on the sailfish LVM.
On SailfishOS i create a new logical volume named gemian on the free space:
lvcreate -v -ay -Ay -l 100%FREE -n gemian sailfish
Next i extracted the latest linux-boot-lvm-stretch.img and gemian-stretch.img.xz from Adam Boardman (see the thread Final call for TP3 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=35696)) many thanks to Adam.
xzcat gemian-stretch.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sailfish/gemian bs=1024k
dd if linux-boot-lvm-gemian.img of=/dev/disk/by-partlabel/boot2 bs=1024k # 1)And expand the filesystem on /dev/sailfish/gemian
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/sailfish-gemian
fsadm resize /dev/sailfish/gemian
Then reboot the PDA using the silver Button to the installed system.
1) It should also be possible to change the filename at boot2 from sailfishos_boot.img to linux-boot-lvm-gemian.img at the Scatter file,
then it should be not necessary to write the stretch boot image on SailfishOS to /dev/disk/by-partlabel/boot2.
Many thanks to all who make this possible
Gabriel