Ubuntu on Galaxy S

HarryHyper · July 30th, 2010, 02:22 PM

Hey Guys!

This is my first post and it should be an interesting one.

Today I was trying to install Ubuntu on my rooted Galaxy S Vibrant. But, When I was moving the Contents of the download to my SD card, I realized that I didn't have enough space. I had a 2 gig SD card and the contents were just over 2 gigs (Plus the SD card really only had about 1.9 gigs) so obviously THAT wouldn't work. So I asked around and someone said that they had dropped the ubuntu contents into the internal memory instead of the SD card on their Moto DROID. Basically I am wondering if it is possible to do the installation process through my 16gb internal memory instead of the sd card. So for example in the guide telling you how to install ubuntu on android where it says to access the files for installation, they wouldn't be in the SD card, they would be in the internal memory.

Is this clear enough?

Thanks in advance

Harrison

Isthmus · July 30th, 2010, 03:00 PM

IIRC the internal memory in a Moto Droid is only 256MB. The 16gb of memory comes from it's micro SD card.

HarryHyper · July 30th, 2010, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Isthmus

IIRC the internal memory in a Moto Droid is only 256MB. The 16gb of memory comes from it's micro SD card.

okay.... this doesn't answer my question though

mrspeedmaster · July 30th, 2010, 06:16 PM

That is interesting because the internal memory is treated like a SD card and any sd card you add to it, is treated as a subfolder via a symbollic link.

My internal storage on my Galay S looks like this:
/sdcard/

and any storage I add to this looks like"

/sdcard/sd

Maybe the bootloader is looking for /sdcard/

??

zuchini · July 30th, 2010, 07:11 PM

i already tried... apparently ubuntu for arm doesnt like hummingbirds... i had zero luck in the install

HarryHyper · July 30th, 2010, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by zuchini

i already tried... apparently ubuntu for arm doesnt like hummingbirds... i had zero luck in the install

Thank you for telling me before i tried XD

I hope you did something wrong cause I want this to work XD

ashykat · July 31st, 2010, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Isthmus

IIRC the internal memory in a Moto Droid is only 256MB. The 16gb of memory comes from it's micro SD card.

Op is using a Samsung Vibrant not a Moto Droid.

HarryHyper · July 31st, 2010, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ashykat

Op is using a Samsung Vibrant not a Moto Droid.

He knows he is just pointing out that the droid doesnt have enough mem to do this. I mentioned the droid in the OP.

HarryHyper · July 31st, 2010, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zuchini

i already tried... apparently ubuntu for arm doesnt like hummingbirds... i had zero luck in the install

what step did it stop working for you?

zuchini · July 31st, 2010, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryHyper

what step did it stop working for you?

nevermind, guess it does work, someone on xda has figured out how to get it working and posted a video tutorial on the install...

HarryHyper · August 9th, 2010, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by zuchini

Arm Ubuntu requires loop support right? well the galaxy s doesn't have that...

Port it yourself or just be patient, there's probably a hundred or so other people that had the same idea and sooner or later someones going to work out the kinks for things like that...

I would do that... if i knew about programming for android

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