C3k & 8gb Card (what Size To Format?), format cf card Options

[lareya]

Okay,
after a long hiatus, I am back to trying to get my little z up and running. I have a 8gb CF card that I will replace the 4gb md card. The card is hosed, and I don't have a back up. So what 3 partitions should I put the 8gb card into? what sizes of partitions, and should I have one vfat for my windows xp machine to read? I need some recommendations here. Do I even need that for openzaurus? I have only used cacko in the past, but for my zc3k, I am thinking that openzaurus (spitz, I think), will be more stable because it just uses the harddrive to install on. Thanks, any advice would be great!

Lareya

[Cresho]

Okay,
after a long hiatus, I am back to trying to get my little z up and running.  I have a 8gb CF card that I will replace the 4gb md card.  The card is hosed, and I don't have a back up.  So what 3 partitions should I put the 8gb card into?  what sizes of partitions, and should I have one vfat for my windows xp machine to read?  I need some recommendations here.  Do I even need that for openzaurus? I have only used cacko in the past, but for my zc3k, I am thinking that openzaurus (spitz, I think), will be more stable because it just uses the harddrive to install on.  Thanks, any advice would be great!

Lareya

boy, you are in for it.

I know how to do it myself but I wonder how you will fair, i spent 8 hours unbricking my c3200. but ill get you started.

here is one usefull topic
http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18636

here are the image downloads
http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-...iginal-backups/

and a few notes....

fdisk utilities to /dev/hdd3

df for finding out what partitions and disks are available

su for super user.

one last thing. you need to go into terminal mode with d+b. you can find out more in the trisoft pdf file. c3000qse.pdf
http://www.trisoft.de/pdf/c3000qse.pdf

i live in southern california, maybee i can be of some assistance.

[wylbur]

I'm no expert, but I have managed to wipe my NAND, replace it with d+b to terminal, totally repartition the microdrive repeatedly, and then replace it with a CF card. And now it works!

Anyway, the OZ developers could tell you more, but AFAICT, all OZ needs is about 150 megs of ext2 in /dev/hda1, and it's then good to go. I have no idea where it puts the "altboot" bootloader, but it's got to be in there somewhere.

My partitions are as follows:

CODE

root@spitz:~/# mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
ramfs on /dev type ramfs (rw)
ramfs on /dev/.static/dev type ramfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock2 on /mnt/nand2 type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
/dev/mtdblock3 on /mnt/nand3 type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)

and /dev/hda2 is about 130 megs of swap. I hacked /etc/fstab to set this stuff up at boot, and it's working pretty well. hth -- wylbur.

ps. I live in Palo Alto. If you're close, we could hack a bit.

[Da_Blitz]

altboot is on the first partiion and is loaded as "init" which then calls exec init.real to do a normall boot

the OZ guys dont say much because they expect a standard layout however you can tell how much you need as a minimum for / by the size of the image you flash

i have 3 partions / /home and swap and it works well

[lareya]

Okay,
good stuff. I think I will go for it this wknd! I am going for the OpenZaurus this time.
Thanks for all your input. I will probably have tons of questions later


Lareya

[zedkatuf2]

Okay, 
good stuff.        I think I will go for it this wknd!  I am going for the OpenZaurus this time. 
Thanks for all your input.  I will probably have tons of questions later 


Lareya

Would 1gb for / be to big if I'm installing both gpe & opie on a 3200?