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Dual Boot a Galaxy Tab with Honeycomb and Ubuntu
Why let all the other mobile device users have the dual boot fun? With this guide you can dual boot your Galaxy Tab.
If you’re a Galaxy Tab owner you can easily install Ubuntu 10.10 on the tablet and enjoy dual booting between Ubuntu and Honeycomb.
Watch the video above to see it in action and then hit up the link below for additional information and a walk through. Have another dual-boot guide to share? Throw a link in the comments.
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Jason Fitzpatrick is warranty-voiding DIYer and all around geek. When he's not documenting mods and hacks he's doing his best to make sure a generation of college students graduate knowing they should put their pants on one leg at a time and go on to greatness, just like Bruce Dickinson. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like.
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I don’t remember there being a January release of ubuntu back in 2010.
Should be “If you’re a Galaxy Tablet owner you can easily install Ubuntu 10.10 on the tablet and enjoy dual booting between Ubuntu and Honeycomb.
#corrections
this is not dual-boot, he just vnc into ubuntu…
William, it is not dual boot, but it is running under chroot. This is more like a virtual private server that you would get from a web hosting company. Ubuntu is running on the tablet. It is still using the Android kernel, but it is running all of the Ubuntu applications, in an Ubuntu style file system.
What an ordinary guide,maybe if you had it worked out before you went online this may have been better.I wish some of you Geeks would consider the not so turned on users when posting a how to do guide
I ran the instructions as pre your video but here is what I get the ubuntu will no boot
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Windows\system32>cd\adb
C:\adb>adb shell
shell@android:/ $ cd /sdcard
cd /sdcard
shell@android:/sdcard $ ls
ls
Alarms
Android
DCIM
Download
LazyList
Movies
Music
Notifications
Pictures
Podcasts
Ringtones
Video
factory.widgets.skins
pulse
samsungapps
ubuntu
shell@android:/sdcard $ cd ubuntu
cd ubuntu
shell@android:/sdcard/ubuntu $ sh ubuntu.sh
sh ubuntu.sh
mount: Operation not permitted
ubuntu.sh[2]: modprobe: not found
ubuntu.sh[4]: clear: not found
rm failed for -f, No such file or directory
rm failed for -f, No such file or directory
rm failed for -f, No such file or directory
rm failed for -f, No such file or directory
rm failed for -f, No such file or directory
mkdir failed for /data/local/mnt, File exists
ubuntu.sh[14]: clear: not found
rm failed for /system/bin/fsrw, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/bootubuntu, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/unionfs, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/bin/mountonly, Read-only file system
ubuntu.sh[20]: cp: not found
ubuntu.sh[21]: cp: not found
ubuntu.sh[22]: cp: not found
ubuntu.sh[23]: cp: not found
Unable to chmod bootubuntu: Operation not permitted
Unable to chmod adb: Read-only file system
ubuntu.sh[36]: clear: not found
Ubuntu Chroot Bootloader v0.1
Ubuntu Bootloader is now installed!
This process does NOT damage Android OS!
Original Installer by Charan Singh
Modified for Ubuntu Chroot by Max Lee at AndroLinux.com ,G2Hacks.com and NexusOn
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To enter the Ubuntu Linux console just type ‘bootubuntu’
shell@android:/sdcard/ubuntu $ bootubuntu
bootubuntu
/system/bin/sh: bootubuntu: not found
127|shell@android:/sdcard/ubuntu $