Installing Wheezy on the Open Pandora

What You will need

On The PC

  1. Format the SD card to have an ext3 partition (I used gparted to do this)
  2. Install debootstrap
    # apt-get install debootstrap
  3. Now run debootstrap. I choose to use the armhf port, as the Open Pandora has a hardware FPU. Others have used the armel port, but that uses a software FPU so it may not be as fast. Since I live in the US, I also choose to use a US based repository
    #debootstrap --arch armhf --foreign wheezy /tmp/pandora-debian http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
  4. Now copy that directory you just made into the SD card, unmount it, and put it into your Pandora.
    #cd /tmp/pandora-debian
    #cp -R -v * /media/chris/Debian/ 
    #umount /media/chris/Debian/
  5. Now on your Pandora, you will have to do the second stage. This will take a little bit of time:
    sudo chroot /media/Debian
    /debootstrap/deboostrap --second-stage
  6. After that, you need to add your repositories into this new install.
    # nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list

*NOTE: I am working on that now.

  1. You must also create a boot.txt or autoboot.txt. If you make a boot.txt, you must manually load it from the bootmenu, but autoboot.txt will boot this before the NAND image:
    #nano /boot.txt
         OR
    #nano /autoboot.txt

Contents of boot.txt/autoboot.txt:


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