[H-GEN] Seeking smartphone OS wisdom

[David Seikel]

On Sat, 31 May 2014 14:36:55 +1000 Tomas Marko Miljenović
<TomasM at tomasm.tk> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 May 2014 05:46:16 AM David Seikel wrote:
> > Lil' Debi: Debian Installer is the one I eventually picked to
> > install on my Android.  It sets up enough so you can debootstrap
> > Debian in a chroot.  Basically Debian as just another Android phone
> > app, you can still use the rest of Android while it's running,
> > including the phone features.  I use it to ssh in and use rsync to
> > back up my phone, but I plan on using it for other things.
> > 
> This sounds good. Did you have any trouble installing or getting
> things to run on your particular handset?

The only trouble I had was trying to figure out which bits of the
Android file system was mounted where in Debian.  There was some
duplication there, but I eventually found out which where the direct
mounts for my backup script.  Wasn't a big trouble though.

For what it's worth my handset is a Samsung Galaxy S3, running the
Slim Bean ROM.

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