Rc 10 On C3000 With Dual Boot, with minor glitches Options

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Ok just managed to have a dual boot on my c3000 with Qtopia and PdaXrom Rc 10
Here's a quick How-To :
1) get the root-akita archive from root-akita-rc10

2) get the gtar package (as tar won't be able to extract with good permissions) and the pivot_root program from the Dual_C760 archive here

3) get the init file from here

4) extract the root of pdaxrom on your hdd3 after reformating it to ext3 following instructions from here

CODE

bzip2 -d root-akita*
gtar xvpf root-akita*
cd /hdd3/root-akita
cp -a * /hdd3
cd ..
gtar xvpf root/.var*
gtar xvpf root/.home*
gtar xvpf root/.dev*
rm -r tmp
mkdir tmp

5) let's go for the finish line

CODE

cd to the path where you downloaded and extracted the init script and the pivot_root program
mount -o remount,rw /
rm -f /sbin/init
cp init /sbin
cp /sbin/chroot /hdd3/sbin/
cp pivot_root /sbin/
cp pivot_root /hdd3/sbin/

then you'll have to edit /hdd3/usr/lib/ipkg/info/bluez-utils.postinst and comment the pcmcia restart line

and then ... just reboot and if everything went fine you'll have a menu asking you 1) Qtopia , 2)/dev/hda3 or 3) CF card (yes, it may even be possible to use it from a CF card but I haven't played with it as I haven't a CF card to use for it and I want to use my CF slot for wifi

during first boot it will take time for all the postinstalls process, then ask you for a login, type root, then source /etc/profile and finally mount /dev/pts before startx

DISCLAIMER : ONLY DO THIS IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, I MAY NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR ZAURUS FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS blablabla ... these are only instructions that I gathered from lots of different places (including lot of japanese google-translations) to be able to use pdaXrom on my c3000 without chrooting or using vnc

there are a few problems with this method :
1) each time you'll type a command in the console you'll have a message about "using fallback suid method"
2) if your zaurus get into sleep mode the hd spin down and don't seem to be able to recover and you'll need to reboot
3) a few programs are not working (only one I found so far not to work were the OSS mixer)
4) lots of messages during boot time as ldconfig complaining about X libs not being symlinks ... but it don't seem to be a real problem


btw I haven't tested it on a long time so there may be other bugs

maybe someone will be able to figure out a better tutorial out of these infos ... I'm not good at writing long tutorials in english (and once again these are just info gathered from other forums so maybe someone could make something better out of these ideas )

Hope it will help some people to have pdaXrom working on their c3000 btw ^^