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 Oct 21 2007, 09:07 AM
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I am insterested in running a full debian distro on my c1000, is there a clear and concise guide to doing this?
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Oct 21 2007, 09:45 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,141 Joined: 22-April 04 From: Belgium Member No.: 2,962 |
QUOTE(scottlfa @ Oct 21 2007, 07:07 PM)  I am insterested in running a full debian distro on my c1000, is there a clear and concise guide to doing this? check http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&...st&p=168577, and maybe read the rest of the thread before starting. ZDevil was writing a detailed howto, but I don't know whether he already finished it. Chero. |
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Oct 21 2007, 10:38 AM
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Yes, I am still preparing the guide. Truly, my notes just keep growing every day.
But my set up got screwed up by some stupid user mistake a few days ago and I really didn't have time time to reinstall everything until today. Basically I am writing not just the installation method, but also summarizing the initial things to finetune for beginners to get started more smoothly. Also I am thinking of putting things in separate posts in the same thread as sections so that the information can be easily added to the wiki or somewhere else. It will be here in the middle of this week, if there is no more incidence. 
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Oct 21 2007, 10:50 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,141 Joined: 22-April 04 From: Belgium Member No.: 2,962 |
QUOTE(ZDevil @ Oct 21 2007, 08:38 PM) It will be here in the middle of this week, if there is no more incidence. Just take care of the speed of the sun and know light travels at the speed of light. 
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Oct 21 2007, 01:17 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 1-October 07 From: Blacksburg, SC, USA Member No.: 20,773 |
Seems I am looking for the angstrom image with kernel 2.6.21 on it, do any of you have it hanging around?
-sheepish look- Thanks for any help 
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Oct 21 2007, 09:55 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,141 Joined: 22-April 04 From: Belgium Member No.: 2,962 |
QUOTE(scottlfa @ Oct 21 2007, 11:17 PM) Seems I am looking for the angstrom image with kernel 2.6.21 on it, do any of you have it hanging around? -sheepish look- Thanks for any help The Angstrom people removed it from the testing images, but it's attached in the thread with the instructions (where you get through the link in my previous post). |
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Oct 22 2007, 10:35 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 1-October 07 From: Blacksburg, SC, USA Member No.: 20,773 |
Can't seem to find an actual downloadable link in the refered to topic. Looked through the whole thing a few times now.
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Oct 22 2007, 11:09 AM
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Oct 22 2007, 11:14 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 1-October 07 From: Blacksburg, SC, USA Member No.: 20,773 |
I have the system running using an earlier 2.6.16 kernel. I went through the above mentioned documents. Presently I have things installed, X won't start for some reason and theres a myriad of other things to do. I am looking for the angstrom image mentioned that has the 2.6.21 kernel. I looked through the posts and found no link to the now missing image.
network is up and running, though it seems to freak out when udev is installed (something about a wlan0_rename seen in cat /dev/net/wireless output) Thanks for the pointer though
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Oct 22 2007, 11:17 AM
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Funny how after 2 weeks no-one has figured out that the kernels are inside the tarballs stored on the angstrom server. Or bothered to build their own 2.6.21 kernel.
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Oct 22 2007, 11:24 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 1-October 07 From: Blacksburg, SC, USA Member No.: 20,773 |
Where are the tarballs? I am still learning the process. As too compiling my own, thats beyond my talents in some ways.
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Oct 22 2007, 11:42 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,141 Joined: 22-April 04 From: Belgium Member No.: 2,962 |
QUOTE(koen @ Oct 22 2007, 09:17 PM) Funny how after 2 weeks no-one has figured out that the kernels are inside the tarballs stored on the angstrom server. Or bothered to build their own 2.6.21 kernel. http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&...st&p=168704 I guess somebody knew ... . Anyway, this is only a forum ... Now you're talking about them, where are the tarballs with the 2.6.21-kernel ? I recall they disappeared 2 days after we started using them ... @ scottlfa : I still have a copy of a 2.6.21-kernel for the C1000 - I'll attach it again tomorrow. It was attached in the previous thread about the subject but the attachments seem to be lost. Chero. |
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Oct 22 2007, 04:00 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 1-October 07 From: Blacksburg, SC, USA Member No.: 20,773 |
Found a 2.6.21 kernel that did the job, though not Angstrom.
Kernel and Modules for 2.6.21 I downloaded the following files from it; updater.sh.akita modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz zImage-2.6.21-blinky-3.0-akita.bin Flashed the unit with the most recent Angstrom (2.6.22) Renamed the zImage-2.6.21-blinky-3.0-akita.bin to zImage Renamed the updater.sh.akita to updater.sh Flashed the new kernel into Ang and rebooted. (exteneded drivers are not ready yet at this step) Prep the modules for Angstrom to use; Once Ang loaded, opened terminal and mounted the cf card. cp modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz / tar zxvf modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz depmod reboot Prepare the SD just as Chero outlines: - create a linux partition on the SD (I created a big linux partition and a 256Mb swap partition on a 4Gb card ) - format the partition : mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 - get the rootfs from http://www.bigbridgezau.sakura.ne.jp/dev/debian/ - untar it to the root of the SD (tar -xzpfv ?) Now you need to put the kernel-modules on the SD as well : - cp modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz /media/card/ - tar zxvf modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz The debian boot process looks for init.sysvinit instead of init, so : - cd /media/card/sbin and "ln -s init init.sysvinit" You need to change the mounted root from the standard /dev/hda1 (Microdrive) for titchy to /dev/mmcblk0p1 (SD-card) - cd /media/card/etc and edit fstab to make /dev/mmcblk0p1 mount to / and make it bootable. (Also disable the /dev/hdaX entries because you don't have a microdrive) Bring up Wifi and prep altboot; ipkg update ipkg install altboot reboot Once it reboots; - press any key to enter altboot - put in password - boot to SD - once at prompt type depmod and reboot Things should be the same from here on out. Not a perfect way but eh ... Doing a great job guys, especially Chero and Zdevil (Would not be trying this without you guys work) |
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Oct 22 2007, 10:14 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,141 Joined: 22-April 04 From: Belgium Member No.: 2,962 |
QUOTE(scottlfa @ Oct 23 2007, 02:00 AM) Found a 2.6.21 kernel that did the job, though not Angstrom. Kernel and Modules for 2.6.21 I downloaded the following files from it; updater.sh.akita modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz zImage-2.6.21-blinky-3.0-akita.bin Flashed the unit with the most recent Angstrom (2.6.22) Renamed the zImage-2.6.21-blinky-3.0-akita.bin to zImage Renamed the updater.sh.akita to updater.sh Flashed the new kernel into Ang and rebooted. (exteneded drivers are not ready yet at this step) Prep the modules for Angstrom to use; Once Ang loaded, opened terminal and mounted the cf card. cp modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz / tar zxvf modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz depmod reboot Prepare the SD just as Chero outlines: - create a linux partition on the SD (I created a big linux partition and a 256Mb swap partition on a 4Gb card ) - format the partition : mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 - get the rootfs from http://www.bigbridgezau.sakura.ne.jp/dev/debian/ - untar it to the root of the SD (tar -xzpfv ?) Now you need to put the kernel-modules on the SD as well : - cp modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz /media/card/ - tar zxvf modules-2.6.21-akita.tgz The debian boot process looks for init.sysvinit instead of init, so : - cd /media/card/sbin and "ln -s init init.sysvinit" You need to change the mounted root from the standard /dev/hda1 (Microdrive) for titchy to /dev/mmcblk0p1 (SD-card) - cd /media/card/etc and edit fstab to make /dev/mmcblk0p1 mount to / and make it bootable. (Also disable the /dev/hdaX entries because you don't have a microdrive) Bring up Wifi and prep altboot; ipkg update ipkg install altboot reboot Once it reboots; - press any key to enter altboot - put in password - boot to SD - once at prompt type depmod and reboot Things should be the same from here on out. Not a perfect way but eh ... Doing a great job guys, especially Chero and Zdevil (Would not be trying this without you guys work) Great to hear you got there !! Congrats. And thanks for the link to the kernel. Chero. |
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Oct 24 2007, 11:05 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 1-October 07 From: Blacksburg, SC, USA Member No.: 20,773 |
Cant's seem to get X up and running with touch screen support. Got the X to come up in Xfce4, but no control of the stylus.
Any attempt to use the Xfbdev kdrive results in exec failed to execute etc ... am I missing something? |
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