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I’m going to use this blog entry to capture everything I do to my new Nokia N800 when setting it up. Hopefully this will serve as a resource to other N800 users, but will also serve as a record for my own use in case I need to reinstall everything at a future date.

• Download the latest firmware (latest at time of writing is OS 2008 edition v. 2.2007.51-3).
• Flash it using the Nokia Internet Tablet Software Update Wizard.
• Set up an internet connection.
• (Optional) Enable Red Pill Mode (New Application catalogue, Web address: matrix, Cancel).
• Add the Maemo Repositories to the Application Manager
  • Maemo Base
    • http://repository.maemo.org/
    • free non-free
  • Maemo Extras
    • http://repository.maemo.org/extras/
    • free non-free
• Update all packages
• Install openssh-server (so you can do the rest of this more comfortably from a remote ssh client window)
• Install some necessary applications that are not in the Maemo repositories:
  • becomeroot (you only need this if you aren’t able to ssh in – use “sudo gainroot” in an xterm instead)
• Change the host name in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname
• Install a suitable authorized_keys file for password-less ssh login
• Reboot and log back in as root
• Reformat the internal SD card (/dev/mmcblk0, /media/mmc2):

# apt-get install e2fsprogs
# umount /media/mmc1
# umount /media/mmc2
# sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 :0,6000,0C
/dev/mmcblk0p2 :6000,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3 :,,
/dev/mmcblk0p4 :,,
# mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1
# mke2fs -j /dev/mmcblk0p2
# shutdown -r now

• Note that to mount the new ext3 filesystem, you need to:

# cd /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/
# insmod mbcache.ko jbd.ko ext3.ko

• Setup booting from the internal SD card

# cd
# curl -o initfs_flasher.tgz http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/initfs_flasher.tgz
# tar zxvf initfs_flasher.tgz
# cd initfs_flasher
# cp bootmenu.conf.n800.example bootmenu.conf
# vi bootmenu.conf
# ./initfs_flash

• Add the timezone for Adelaide and set it as my Home city.

• Modify the mmc mount script (/usr/sbin/osso-mmc-umount.sh) to ignore a mounted root directory
  • grep “$MP ” /proc/mounts | grep -v ” / ” > /dev/null