MeeGo now available for the Nokia N900 – Install Guide also available
The awaited release of MeeGo for the Nokia N900 is finally available for download. Hit read more for the installing guide.
After Day 1, the rest will follow soon – in the next few days, we will post the next steps leading to the first release of MeeGo in May.
The images available today are: Intel Atom-based netbooks, ARM-based Nokia N900, and Intel Atom-based handset (Moorestown). These images can be downloaded from http://meego.com/downloads
The corresponding package (RPM) repositories are at repo.meego.com/MeeGo and the git source repositories are available at http://meego.gitorious.org/. Bugzilla is at http://bugzilla.meego.com/
Please download, test, and provide feedback. The wiki on meego.com and the MeeGo mailing lists are excellent ways to share information and ask questions.
We’ll post a proposed timeline soon which should answer your questions about opening the user experience, applications, and application framework repositories. For now, please take a look and let us know what you think.
Preparations
Before flashing:
- Ensure that your battery is fully charged.
- Unplug the charger and turn the device off.
Different images
There are two pre-built images available, open MeeGo image and one with some closed Nokia proprietary binaries. See Meego images for N900 for more details and instructions on obtaining the images.
The image with the closed Nokia proprietary binaries will add following functionalities:
- Battery management (BME), without this you may cause damage to your battery.
- WLAN firmware
- BT frimware
You can also create your own rootfs image. See creating arm image with MIC2 for instructions.
Installing MeeGo image
Get the open MeeGo image and also the kernel by following the instructions fromMeego images for N900 page.
1. Make sure your device is turned off and the battery is fully charged.
2. Remove the battery from the device.
3. Connect the device to computer with USB cable.
4. Next start the flasher software:
sudo flasher-3.5 -f -k <kernel_image> -r <meego.ubiimg>5. Put the battery back to the device.
6. If the flasher does not recognize the device go back to step 2.
After the flashing is complete power off the device by removing the battery and go to step 7 in case you are not using the closed Nokia binaries.
7. (Optional: For image without closed components): You need to also disable watchdogs if you are not using the closed components, especially the Battery Management Entity (BME). This can be done similarly to above, except the flasher command is following:
sudo flasher-3.5 --enable-rd-mode --set-rd-flags=no-omap-wd,no-ext-wdAfter these steps you can remove the USB cable and put the battery back to the device. The device should boot to xterm with MeeGo codedrop image.
