Installing NITDroid

This tutorial is specifically designed to install Nitdroid on the internal memory of the N900 (EMMC) and does not apply to installation on an external micro SD card. The main purpose of installing Nitdroid on the internal memory is that in most cases you will see an increased performance.

There are two ways of installing NITDroid:

1. Copy NITDroid's rootfs to /and in /home: Easier - Faster

2. Creating a custom 2GB partition on your eMMC: Cleaner - Requires a brain


NOTE: It is highly recomended that you flash the modded 8GB 20GB eMMC image. Nitdroid won't recognize/use/install anything if you have low memory in mmcblk0p2.

Clean Installing of NITDroid
Download the archive + the kernel to /MyDocs i.e. root dir. of N900:
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Kernel: [Only registered and activated users can see links]
Enable all repositories from App manager (Extras-testing, Extras-devel, Extras and the default Nokia repos)
Install Leafpad from the App manager and make sure that you have root access
Close App manager, open X Terminal and execute the following commands:


root
apt-get update
apt-get install nitdroid-installer
y
y again if it asks again.

After the nitdroid-installer package is installed, close X Terminal, but do NOT run the installer you have just downloaded.
Open X Terminal, and execute the following commands:


root
cd /home/user/MyDocs
bzip2 -d nitdroidarchivename.tar.bz2

(You can only uncompress the file once. So only do this step once!)

Open X Terminal (or use the same xterm as you used for the previous step), and execute the following commands:


cd /home
mkdir /and
cd /
mount /home /and
cd /and
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroidarchivename.tar
dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb
Edit the boot file:


leafpad /etc/multiboot.d/11-NITDroid-mmcblk0p2-2.6.28.NIT.
(then tap the tab button, .item file will show, hit enter to open it in Leafpad).

Edit ITEM_DEVICE in the file according to this:

If you have an MMC (micro SD card) plugged in your N900, change ITEM_DEVICE to this:
ITEM_DEVICE=${INT_CARD}p2
If you don't have an MMC plugged in your N900, change ITEM_DEVICE to this:
ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p2
Once editing is complete click the drop down menu on Leafpad and save then close Leafpad.
Close X Terminal, open hardware keyboard of N900, reboot N900 and type ‘2’ for NITDroid.


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