moblin 2.0 beta
Downloaded a copy today. The install instructions ask you to dd the iso into a USB stick. That’s not so nice – for people with other data (eg: images, music) on the flash drive. I tried using unetbootin – but didn’t work out of the box. Here’s the trick:
- Assumes you’ve already run unetbootin once on your USB key. Backup syslinux.cfg if necessary.
- mount the image and then extract vmlinuz0, initrd0.img and splash.jpg onto the USB stick.
- Copy isolinux.cfg as syslinux.cfg
- Edit root=/dev/sdb1 rootfstype=vfat in syslinux.cfg. Replace sdb1 with the device name or label for your setup.
Reboot.
Overall impressions: Looks like a slick interface. As an end user I wish projects like maemo, moblin and android cooperated and produced one polished product.
Categories: Open Source