Install MeeGo from Hard Disk

Revision as of 08:56, 11 January 2011

Many Linux users would like to try MeeGo, here is a convenient method to install a MeeGo to hard disk.

Warning!! Be careful not overwrite useful data on your existing system!

Warning!! Following just provides a clue to install OS quickly, you should be responsible for your actions!

Preparation

• Download an netbook image or IVI image to hard disk.

[root@woliu-desktop img]# ls
meego-netbook-ia32-trunk-daily-1.1.80.14.20110107.1.img

• Create an empty partition, format as ext3,

[root@woliu-desktop img]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd274d274

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        6375    51207156    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            6376       30402   192990158    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            6376       10199    30716248+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6           10200       13847    29296640   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           13847       13971      999424   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8           13972       21620    61440000   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           21621       23252    13107200   83  Linux
/dev/sda10          23252       24884    13107200   83  Linux
/dev/sda11          24884       30402    44317696   83  Linux

• • 4G is enough to experience it. The larger, the better.
  • Don't care about the file system. ext3 is OK
  • Here, I use /dev/sda9 as the destination to install MeeGo

Create file system

• Mount the image to get installation source

mkdir /mnt/{1,2,3}
mount -o loop /work/img/meego-netbook-ia32-trunk-daily-1.1.80.14.20110107.1.img /mnt/1/
mount -o loop /mnt/1/LiveOS/squashfs.img /mnt/2/
mount -o loop /mnt/2/LiveOS/ext3fs.img /mnt/3/

Now we get the source

[root@woliu-desktop img]# ls /mnt/3/
bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lost+found  media  mnt  opt  proc  root  sbin  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var

• Mount the empty partition for install MeeGo

mkdir /mnt/4
mount /dev/sda9 /tmp/4

• Copy files

rsync --avz --delete /tmp/3/* /tmp/4/

Add boot item to boot config

Boot to MeeGo