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 Mar 18 2006, 07:51 AM
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Wow , lots of work went in to 3.5.4. Just tried it today and it's fantastic. Opie is very responsive, haven't had any errors / crashes and wifi just works. Thanks for a great release.
I am the proud owner of a 5500 which means i don't have enough memory to install konqeror and utilize my new found wireless goodness. I tried to install it with altboot using Advanced-> 8 in the boot menu, but it complained that it couldn't find rootfs.tar.gz which file is the rootfs.tar.gz ? I downloaded the bootstrap-image-3.5.4-collie.initrd.bin on the OZ site , do i just rename this ? thanks in Advance Mase |
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Mar 18 2006, 08:09 AM
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Hmm.. I have to repack tar.bz2 to tar.gz then
use files from images/collie/tarballs/ as rootfs.tar.gz |
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Mar 19 2006, 03:42 AM
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QUOTE(Hrw @ Mar 18 2006, 04:09 PM) Hmm.. I have to repack tar.bz2 to tar.gz then use files from images/collie/tarballs/ as rootfs.tar.gz  thanks HRW, the new .tar.gz files seem to make altboot happy, and i can do an install , but when it comes to actually booting it i get a whole heap of /etc/init.d/rcS: 95 [: Input/output error /etc/rcS.d/S40networking 9: [:Input/output error ...and so it goes on until the login prompt. does my sd card need to be formatted vfat ? at the moment its ext2, i had it working with hentges 3.5.3 rom ok and the card seems fine when i write to it with various desktop machines. do i need to copy the rootfs.tar.gz to the sd card? i was trying to install it from the cf card which i used to flash the zaurus to the sd card. |
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Mar 20 2006, 12:39 AM
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hey speaking of vfat, I can't find mkfs.vfat anywhere to reformat my SD card -- which package contains it (i've pored through the list unable to find anything that sounds like it'd have filesystem utils)?
while i'm almost changing subjects, does a card need to be vfat to be recognized by the new (and really cool) card management icon? i've got socket 0 and 1, and when my collie has both SD and CF, it only says there's a CF even though I can mount & access the SD no problem. |
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Mar 20 2006, 03:24 AM
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QUOTE(Mase @ Mar 19 2006, 01:42 PM) QUOTE(Hrw @ Mar 18 2006, 04:09 PM) Hmm.. I have to repack tar.bz2 to tar.gz then use files from images/collie/tarballs/ as rootfs.tar.gz thanks HRW, the new .tar.gz files seem to make altboot happy, and i can do an install , but when it comes to actually booting it i get a whole heap of /etc/init.d/rcS: 95 [: Input/output error /etc/rcS.d/S40networking 9: [:Input/output error ...and so it goes on until the login prompt. That sounds like a broken FS on that card, reformat and try again. |
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Mar 20 2006, 04:07 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,376 Joined: 11-January 04 From: Poznań, Poland Member No.: 1,413 |
mkfs.vfat is in dosfstools package
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Mar 20 2006, 12:36 PM
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Am I right that by altboot I can make my zaurus don't use internal flash for root but use sd as harddisk? But I still have to flash opie to internal flash memory (and kernel 0-64) and then set booting from my ext2 SD?
By this I'm able to make OpenZaurus last thing I really like on Cacko sl5500 3.10 ROM - SD is seen as internal memory. |
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Apr 20 2006, 12:22 AM
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QUOTE(nax @ Mar 21 2006, 07:36 AM) Am I right that by altboot I can make my zaurus don't use internal flash for root but use sd as harddisk? But I still have to flash opie to internal flash memory (and kernel 0-64) and then set booting from my ext2 SD? . yep thats the idea, except i cant get it to boot... so at the moment im trying out hentges cardfs [edit] its working now http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18467&hl= |
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