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Pandian

Pandian is an debian-based armhf distro for you Pandora

Main Idea

Bring a fully desktop to the pandora with the flavor of debian :)

Help / Bugs / Features

Ideas, Bugs, or features-requests take a look on: http://www.evilbrain.de/projects/pandian/issues

Releases

Release	Version Name	Description
29.09.2013	#01	The very first version of pandian
End of December	"#MARK2"	The next version

01

Full debian GNU/Linux 7.2 codename Wheezy (stable) with LXDE desktop environment hardfloat armv7l released Date: 29.09.2013

Features

• Hard-Float-ABI
• Ext4 Root for better performance
• Working Touch-Screen
• Working Nubs
• Screen-Off on LID-Close
• Low-Power-Mode
• WLAN
• Music ( with Sonata/MPD )
• Automount

Upcoming/Ideas

• Assistant for tzdata
• libpnd - PND-Support
• OpenGL not tested yet
• Aptitude
• Minimal-Network-Installation
• Pandian-Debian-Repository for special packages ( libpnd, touch-screen-calibrator )
• of course, in-system-documentation ( Documentation on the pandora )

Download here

Forum thread

Installation

note: It is assumed here, that the card-reader load the card as /dev/sdc. Please check before which device is your SD-card ! This can be checked with gparted. Minimum requirement 2GB SD-card.

1. Download Image ( as 7z )
2. Verify md5-checksum:
   pandian-stable-hf_2013-09-29.001.7z 2a85bbb40bbe7c6e8f92f058e150951a
   pandian-stable-hf_2013-09-29.001.img e62d101dc708de49af1ca7743e2df2bd
3. Unzip with 7z ( in Linux with 7zr e <image.7z> )
4. Copy image to SD-Card ( dd if=<image.img> of=/dev/sdx ) Don't specify "bs="

Username: Pandian
Root password: Root (change after intsallation as per instructions below)

1. Open a terminal
2. Type "su"
3. Type "passwd"
4. Enter your new root password when prompted, and then again to confirm.
5. Dont forget your password

Resize

Default installation is limited to 2GB, if you want to expand it, you can, provided you have installed it on a bigger SD-card and want to make use of the space.

• Size will be changed with parted
• parted /dev/sdx
• show size with "print free"

1. (parted) print free # Model: USB Mass Storage Device (scsi)
2. Disk /dev/sdc: 7965MB# Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B# Partition Table: msdos

Number	Start	End	Size	Type	File system	Flags
	32,3kB	1049kB	1016kB		Free Space
1	1049kB	53,5MB	52,4MB	primary	fat32
2	53,5MB	1933MB	1879MB	primary	ext4
	1933MB	7965MB	6032MB		Free Space

we would like to resize the second partition to the nearly end ( -512MB for swap )

1. (parted) resizepart # Partition number? 2 # Warning: Partition /dev/sdc2 is being used. Are you sure you want to continue?# Yes/No? YES # End? [1933MB]? 7453MB this is how the partitions looks like after

(parted) print free * Model: USB Mass Storage Device (scsi)* Disk /dev/sdc: 7965MB* Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B* Partition Table: msdos

Number	Start	End	Size	Type	File system	Flags
	32,3kB	1049kB	1016kB		Free Space
1	1049kB	53,5MB	52,4MB	primary	fat32
2	53,5MB	7453MB	7400MB	primary	ext4
	7453MB	7965MB	512MB		Free Space

create Swap (optional)

(parted) mkpart primary linux-swap Start? 7453MB End? 7965MB

this is how the partitions looks like after

(parted) print free * Model: USB Mass Storage Device (scsi)* Disk /dev/sdc: 7965MB* Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B* Partition Table: msdos

Number	Start	End	Size	Type	File system	Flags
	32,3kB	1049kB	1016kB		Free Space
1	1049kB	53,5MB	52,4MB	primary	fat32
2	53,5MB	7453MB	7400MB	primary	ext4
	7453MB	7453MB	278kB		Free Space
	7453MB	7965MB	512MB	primary	Free Space

disregard the 4th entry, the new resized partition is the last one.

resize filesystem

• resize2fs /dev/sdc2

create swap

• mkswap /dev/sdc3

MARK2

Which Version i should choose ?

There are two different versions of the "MARK2" release:

• minimal

The minimal-version is an text-only-version of pandian but with wifi enabled and ceni for connecting to wifi-networks from command line

• LXDE

The lxde-version which additional graphical tools

• If you are an "normal" user and like to have an desktop, just choose the normal "MARK2" release
• If you don't like graphical user interface, or LXDE as Desktop use choose the minimal version

Requirements

• Of course a Pandora ;)
• An SD-Card with minimum 2GB ( was tested with 4GB )
• An Linux or Windows PC

Downloads

Coming soon ;)

Verify you SD-Hardware

Check where your SD-Card is located. If you have an build in SD-Card-Reader this is normally /dev/mmcblk0p1 ( in Debian ) If you have an USB-Card-Reader this is something like /dev/sdc ( in Debian )

• Open an Terminal and input "lsblk"
• You get an list with the actual Block-Devices
• The SD-Card should be as type disk

You can also try gparted to see which devices you have and identify the sd-card

Unzip

1. Unzip with 7z ( in Linux with 7zr e <image.7z> )

Copy the image to the SD-Card

1. Here it will be /dev/sdx
2. Copy image to SD-Card with "dd if=<image.img> of=/dev/sdx"

Resize SD-Card

• After copy the SD-IMAGE to the SD-Card you need to resize the partitions to get the fully size of your SD-Card

• This can be done with gparted on linux
• start gparted

The actual partitions of the SD-CARD. Please select the correct device at the top right corner.

Rightclick to the second partition and select Resize/Move

You see the actual Size of this partition

Move the slider to the right, or set "Free space following" to 0

After you press the "Resize/Move" button, you get the preview of the new partition structure

When you press "Apply all operations", youve got a warning that you can loss your Data.
THIS IS THE LAST CHANGE TO CHECK IF YOU SELECTED THE CORRECT DEVICE.
Press Apply if everything is correct.

• After everything is fine, you have your new fresh pandian on you SD-Card

First-start

• When you first start pandian, there is an first-start-wizard which guides you through some basic settings for Pandian

Navigation

• Inside an dialog you can navigate with the cross
• With space you select a checkbox
• <Ok> or to <Cancel> can be reached if you use TAB ( Tap Fn then tap Space )
• Acknowledge with Enter

Update ( Optional )

• After you setup your Pandora, it is useful to update your system. This is caused depending on when you download the image, debian has already new packages ;)
• open an terminal
• get root ( command is: su )
• enter "apt-get update" to get the actual package informations
• enter "apt-get upgrade" to update all packages include the pandian-packages ;)

Preinstalled packages

This are the packages which comes with the different versions of MARK2:

LXDE

• of course LXDE
• Text-Editor: medit
• Audio: mpd als backend, glurp as frontend

Additional Users/Groups

There are additional Users/Groups added to the standard debian-users

Groups

• admin

This user is used by sudo for admin task like shutdown etc.

• mpd

This user/group has access to mpd-related files ( socket, pid-files )

Debian repository

Pandian features an own additional debian repository to keep the pandian-core scripts up to date

• just open an terminal
• get root ( command is: su )
• enter "apt-get update" to get the actual package informations
• enter "apt-get upgrade" to update all packages include the pandian-packages ;)

User-Guide

pdcmd

• This script handles all system-related stuff, like lid, low-power, usb or wifi.
• This should run as root

Usage:

Command	What's done
/usr/sbin/pdcmd LCDBright +	Increase the light of the lid
/usr/sbin/pdcmd LCDBright -	Decrease the light of the lid
/usr/sbin/pdcmd LCDBright 10	Set the Brightness of the lid to 10
/usr/sbin/pdcmd LCDTrigger	Trigger the lid ( WARNING: THIS DISABLES THE LID ! )
/usr/sbin/pdcmd USBNetTrigger	Enable the USB-Networking (module g_ether). If usbnetworking is on, it will disable it
/usr/sbin/pdcmd USBHostTrigger	Enable the USB-Host (module ehci-hcd). If USB-Host is on, it will disable it
/usr/sbin/pdcmd WLANTrigger	Enable Wifi. If Wifi is enabled it will be disabled

LCDBright +