Yesterday I finalized the installation of Ubuntu and Maemo platform. At the first time ever I manage to get it work.
On my first attempt I was using 64 bit version of Ubuntu and I found out that s was not suitable for Maemo development environment. In that time Ubuntu was installed as secondary platform on my WinXP machine.
On second attempt I tried to reinstall Ubuntu again as secondary environment on my WinXP machine but something went wrong and instead of using the fresh blank, unpartitioned area which I made available for installation, Ubuntu was installed on a small chunk installation application made at the end of NTFS partition. I got so frustrated that removed Ubuntu completed and reallocated the free space back to NTFS.
On third try I used separate laptop but this time I ended to use modified Red Hat package. Red Hat was OK but it was impossible to get the Maemo development environment up and running.
Finally this week I cleaned the laptop again and installed Ubuntu 7.10 from the scratches. I followed the instructions "Howto : Scratchbox + Maemo 4.0 + Ubuntu Gutsy = Nokia N800 Dev Environment " made by debug and finally manage to get it up and running.
So it took awhile and required an excellent instruction but I finally made it.