Getting started with the 'Base' image

What is the 'Base' image?
The 'Base' image is a distribution that isn't meant to be released. It's a really basic distribution that Openmoko uses for testing the fixes. Because the Openmoko team is now putting their effort into the low-level issues, most likely you will find here the new fixes of these issues.

Install the 'Base' image

• Download the kernel, the file system image.
• Flash your images with NeoTool
  

Configuring the 'Base' image

• Suspend off: We will put suspend off, because there are to many bugs. For example, you may not get any phone calls anymore. Also it isn't handy for using automatic suspend if you're ssh into you're phone. The connection gets interrupted and cannot be restored again. We put suspend off by opening settings and clicking on the suspend item until it says 'off'.
• Restarting device: The first time I started my 'Base' image, I was unable to ssh into it. After I restarted my Neo FreeRunner, I could ssh into it.
  
• Updating opkg: Because the list of applications that opkg can install is outdated, we will have to update opkg by doing:
  
  opkg update
  
  
• Install nano: We will install nano, because it's an easier editor and most people can work with it. You just have to do the following command:
  
  opkg install nano
  
  If you encounter an problem with packagekit, do:
  
  pkill packagekit
  
  
• Install calculator: what is a modern gsm without a calculator. It's like a little computer that is unable to calculate while the calculator was the predecessor of a computer. So we open installer (by pressing the bottom bar) and goto Miscellaneous and install qtopia-phone-x11-calculator.
• Install phone software: Now we have our base system. But we want to use our base system for calling and sending sms's. So we need to install some phone software. I will go for the phone software that's are also in the 'Om 2008.8' image and is Qtopia based.
  
  opkg install task-openmoko-qtopia-x11
  

Now we are ready.
Have a nice FreeRunner time.

Edit: The last step will probably fail with the warning he could not satisfy a dependency. You can overrule that by doing 'opkg install task-openmoko-qtopia-x11 -force-depends'.