[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Warning. Installing Maemo Development Platform

[From: Karoliina Salminen]

Luca De Cicco wrote:
>Hi there this is my first post on this ml. I'm quite sorry for the
>subject of this post (it would have better if i'd announce release of
>some package...)
>
>This day i downloaded Maemo Development Platform from the maemo website
>and i was happy to know what was new and suddenly found out that all
>interesting stuff is not included in this rootfs. 
>  
>Basically after installing the MDP you will have anything but XTerm and
>an Hello World application and no way to get non-free packages. Also it
>seems that the there's no way at the moment to get the product
>filesystem back because the rootfs file is currently unavailable on the
>nokia web-site.
>
>So if you want to flash your device with the MDP SDK please have in mind
>that you will have an unusable device for the daily use at least until
>someone will get the product rootfs back on the nokia site.
>  
For that reason there is the warning in my blog in regarding the
instructions of flashing.
To do a new product based on 770, use SDK rootimage, it is an empty
table for adding
anything on top of it. To use 770 as 770 plus develop apps for it,
just use the product image (current IMHO).

Karoliina