Chip9$ now it's a good Debian GUI

Chip 9$ runs jessie Debian and Xorg server (I am running lxde in the picture here below).

(There are still details to fix, but it works!)

Chronicle of Debian installation

fdirst step: load the image

I have used on my laptop (Debian SID) the procedure described here for Ubuntu. I am not using any vagrant/virtualbox virtual machine as I don't want any proprietary virtualbox extension running on my laptop

I had a problem during the flashing phase so I am describing it here to help whoever could step on the same issue.

Following the instructions I got this on the terminal where I ran ./chip-update-firmware.sh -d

== upload the SPL to SRAM and execute it ==
waiting for fel...OK
== upload spl ==
== upload u-boot ==
== upload u-boot script ==
== upload ubi ==
Invalid command --progress
== execute the main u-boot binary ==
== write ubi ==
flashing.......................................................................................................TIMEOUT
ERROR: could not flash

The problem was --progess! If you use standard fel (got from https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools) it does not support --progress, so to solve the problem either get the git from http://github.com/NextThingCo/sunxi-tools as explained in the instructions or delete the --progress option in chip-fel-flash.sh line 146.