Getting the Android operating system.

sgosnell · 05-25-2016, 08:12 PM

Android was developed for phones, and extended to tablets. It's designed for ARM devices with touchscreens. It can run on other hardware, but not optimally. For phones & tablets, the OS is installed by flashing the ROM from a PC using the Android SDK, or at least part of it. For a PC, you can install from a USB drive.

ondoho · 05-26-2016, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stf92

That´s precisely the point. What would you do if you would like to download the Linux operanting system. Would you enter the first link you found and download the software you found there? Or would you, instead, proceed to inform yourself the best you can before doing something of that importance?

why don't you just mosey over to xda-developers, get familiar with their forum's abominable interface, and get the information you are looking for?
here on LQ it's like pulling boogers out of our noses.

stf92 · 05-26-2016, 10:36 AM

Well, I downloaded Android through the link in post #8. It is a .zip consisting of an ISO image, an install tools .exe file and a .txt file with instructions. I did a dd from the iso to the pendrive, starting at sector 0. Then I booted from the pendrive and was presented with two options: Resident and Guest. I chose Resident and the system said there was no room for the data. As I had done only one partition embracing the whole pendrive, I now made two partitions, and copied the iso onto the first partition. Then I used a lilo.conf with boot= /dev/sdb (the pendrive) and a section with

other=/dev/sdb1
label=android

But lilo said:

Code:

 
root@server:/etc# lilo -C lilo_pendrive.conf -v -t LILO version 24.0 (test mode)   * Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger  (until v20)   * Copyright (C) 1999-2007 John Coffman  (until v22)   * Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Joachim Wiedorn  (since v23) This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software  distributed under the BSD License (3-clause). Details can be found in  the file COPYING, which is distributed with this software. Compiled at 23:56:18 on Oct 27 2013 

Reading boot sector from /dev/sdb 
Warning: /dev/sdb is not on the first disk Using MENU secondary loader 
Calling map_insert_data 
Warning: The boot sector and map file are on different disks. 

Boot other: /dev/sdb1, on /dev/sdb, loader CHAIN Warning: Device 0x0810: Inconsistent partition table, 1st entry   
CHS address in PT:  0:32:33  -->  LBA (2016)   
LBA address in PT:  2048  -->  CHS (0:33:3) 
Fatal: Either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE-TABLE must be specified If not sure, first try IGNORE-TABLE (-P ignore)

Is it a bad idea to dd onto the first partition and use lilo? When I dd starting at sector 0 with no partitions everything went well (save it had no room for the data).

ondoho · 06-02-2016, 12:04 PM

it probably meant that there is no space on your tablet's storage to do an install.
what happens if you choose guest instead?
have you followed installation instructions, both from the text file and from remix os website?
are you aware this is a beta version?
if you still need help with this, please do not provide us with a narrative, but with relevant detail instead: exact commands, their outputs, menu choices,... please read the first link in my signature.