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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

Versions

Release	Version Name	Description
29.09.2013	02	The very first version of pandian
End of December	"MARK 2"	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
Passwd: Root (change this after installation)

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

Versions

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

Which Version i should choose ?

• 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

Installation

Requirements

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

Downloads

Coming soon ;)

Install the image

Linux

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"

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
• <Ok> or to <Cancel> can be reached if you use TAB ( Tap Fn then tap Space )
• Acknowledge with Enter

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 )