What's the best way to get a working development version?

[Javier Llorente]

Hi Thomas!

On 23/11/11 23:48, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to write Human Interface Guidelines for Active Apps and I would like
> them to be based on PA's current development status, but I currently don't see
> a way for me to get that status on my device.
> The problem is:
> - The Meego devel images are currently utterly broken (the latest one won't
> even start X on my device, previous ones did not fare much better)

There have been many changes in the Project:KDE:Devel repo.
2011-11-23-17-42-basyskom-plasma-active-devel-USB-live.iso boots fine 
but it still has some issues.

> - The Mer images for x86 are not ready yet, according to Maurice
> - I did not manage to get latest packages on top of a Balsam Plasma Active
> image installation no matter how hard I tried (maybe I did something wrong,
> don't know)
> - When I put openSUSE 11.4 live on a USB stick with dd, my Wetab won't boot
> from it for some reason

I think you have to change the DiskID after dd'ing;
printf "\x9d\x2a\x44\x7b" | dd of=${IMAGE} bs=1 count=4 seek=440

> After spending hours trying and failing to get a current development status
> running on my Wetab, I'm pretty frustrated.
>
> Could someone please give me a hint at what I need to do for that? You guys
> seem to be able to test the latest developments, so there must be a way ;)

Greetings,
Javier