Hello,
The other day I acquired a brand spanking new 64GB SD card and I figured I'd give pandebian a try. I have been using Pandian (mark 2) as the main OS on my Pandora for most of this year and it has been working well. However, I wanted to see what a hybrid system might be like.
It took me 4 attempts to get pandebian installed. I formatted the card using ext3 and then tried the direct install of wheezy into a sub-directory. This did not work. I then tried a direct install of wheezy to the root directory of the card. This also failed. Third attempt was to a 20GB loopback file and this again failed. Finally, I decided to try squeeze instead of wheezy and this worked, using a direct install to a sub-directory on the card.
I did notice that some of the packages for wheezy were broken when attempting to install. In all failed cases, I got to the point where I was told that the base install had been completed but then the installation failed telling me something about /var/run but I didn't write down the actual error message unfortunately.
In any case, having installed squeeze, I realised that I needed to upgrade as the software I want is not available on that version of Debian or is much older than I would like. I changed the apt/sources.list file to point to testing and updated the database. Upgrading proved difficult immediately due, I think, to apt (in squeeze) not being able to understand some of the configuration options in later versions of Debian. I had to uninstall a number of packages, particularly most of gnome and lx related packages before an upgrade worked. Once I got a new version of apt and libraries installed, I could then re-install lxterminal, lxpanel and other packages to ensure that pandebian would work upon reboot...
I now have a working testing Debian installation running with Super Zaxxon 1.7! It's quite nice and seems more responsive than Pandian was although this could be because the 64GB card is faster than the 16GB card I had for Pandian. Not sure.
Note that the Pandebian Share does not work for me but I have not yet explored why this is. I am not too bothered, mind you.
My main problem, instead, is that I don't like the window manager in Super Zaxxon. I'm a ratpoison user... having to use the mouse or strange key combinations for manipulating my windows annoys me!
As I don't often use PNDs, I'm probably going to go back to Pandian but I'm going to give pandebian a chance by using it for a couple of weeks.
In any case, thanks for the option!
The other day I acquired a brand spanking new 64GB SD card and I figured I'd give pandebian a try. I have been using Pandian (mark 2) as the main OS on my Pandora for most of this year and it has been working well. However, I wanted to see what a hybrid system might be like.
It took me 4 attempts to get pandebian installed. I formatted the card using ext3 and then tried the direct install of wheezy into a sub-directory. This did not work. I then tried a direct install of wheezy to the root directory of the card. This also failed. Third attempt was to a 20GB loopback file and this again failed. Finally, I decided to try squeeze instead of wheezy and this worked, using a direct install to a sub-directory on the card.
I did notice that some of the packages for wheezy were broken when attempting to install. In all failed cases, I got to the point where I was told that the base install had been completed but then the installation failed telling me something about /var/run but I didn't write down the actual error message unfortunately.
In any case, having installed squeeze, I realised that I needed to upgrade as the software I want is not available on that version of Debian or is much older than I would like. I changed the apt/sources.list file to point to testing and updated the database. Upgrading proved difficult immediately due, I think, to apt (in squeeze) not being able to understand some of the configuration options in later versions of Debian. I had to uninstall a number of packages, particularly most of gnome and lx related packages before an upgrade worked. Once I got a new version of apt and libraries installed, I could then re-install lxterminal, lxpanel and other packages to ensure that pandebian would work upon reboot...
I now have a working testing Debian installation running with Super Zaxxon 1.7! It's quite nice and seems more responsive than Pandian was although this could be because the 64GB card is faster than the 16GB card I had for Pandian. Not sure.
Note that the Pandebian Share does not work for me but I have not yet explored why this is. I am not too bothered, mind you.
My main problem, instead, is that I don't like the window manager in Super Zaxxon. I'm a ratpoison user... having to use the mouse or strange key combinations for manipulating my windows annoys me!
As I don't often use PNDs, I'm probably going to go back to Pandian but I'm going to give pandebian a chance by using it for a couple of weeks.
In any case, thanks for the option!
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