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[android-debian.git] / README

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@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ These scripts are ready to roll if:
 - you place the scripts under debian/ in /debian/usr/local/sbin/.
 
 If this is not the case, then you will need to modify these scripts to
-work for you.
+work for you. Note that you will probably need to modify
+debian/debian-init anyway, to specify which services you want to have
+started automatically.
 
 
 Starting Debian services at boot time
@@ -37,3 +39,25 @@ service debian /data/local/bin/debian-init
 
 For some reason, Android's init won't start Debian if supplied with the
 'oneshot' option, so do not use that.
+
+
+Mounting Android file systems within the chroot
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+If you'd like to be able to manipulate Android's file systems from
+Debian, you can bind-mount them under /debian/android/. The debian-init
+script will do this for you, based on searching through the file system
+tree under /debian/android/ looking for empty directories. Just create a
+directory /debian/android/foo for each /foo in Android you want to be
+mounted in this way, and debian-init will mount it appropriately at boot
+time.
+
+
+Using a Debian shell from an Android terminal emulator
+------------------------------------------------------
+
+If you want your device's terminal emulator to default to using a shell
+in a Debian environment, just use /data/local/bin/debian-sh as your
+shell. This will su to root if you aren't already, chroot into Debian,
+set some environment variables and then execute bash in a Debian
+environment.