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Manual Debian Installation on N900

Follow the steps as described on http://elektranox.org/n900/installation/manual.html

TODO: migrate the steps to the wiki

FAQ

Bootmenu hangs with white screen

Bootmenu uses the Maemo kernel, which doesn't have console/tty support. Thus the display will stay as Bootmenu has left it until the X-Server starts. To find out what's going on I suggest the following steps:

Typical error: nodm is disabled in /etc/default/nodm