How To Install Angstrom After Cacko Options

[geeko]

I tried to install angstrom following this guide:
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/c1000...ll-instructions
But it failed, and i was afraid i had broken my zaurus.

Luckily i was able to install cacko again.
Is there any guide to installing Angstrom on top of cacko? I just want all the old stuff deleted.

[Wildherb]

Allelectrix,

Angstrom is well worth checking out but is not without its frustrations as you have seen from this thread. For me, some 2 years after the demise of OZ, I still see OZ as a richer platform in terms of its applications and hence its functionality (at least, the apps that I want - oh, quick note that Blue Lightning is doing some great work on porting the legacy QT apps to the new Angstrom OPIE interface).

There seems to be a straight choice in the Z community now, either:

1) to go with a 'full size' OS (OpenBSD, Debian or the emerging Zubuntu) which offer a full archive of applications but at the expense of some annoying niggles at the lower levels like power drain when in standby mode or lack of basic drivers and, of course, being being un-optimised for the limited resources of the Z
2) Choose an optimised operating environment that has full hardware support and be resigned to missing out on some of the applications or functionallity that you would like.

Wait, there is a 3rd option...

3) Some sort of hybrid, either multi-booting or hot switching. Hats off to the Angstrom team for the options they have given us with their kernels altboot)

Personally, I'm leaning towards Angstrom/OPIE as a base OS as it is light and functional and I'm looking for a way to get the full archive of Debian apps through XQt and something like pocketworkstation or a chrooted rootfs on another partition. GPE is just so awful as an interface! If only there was an option to boot it directly into a modern window manager such as E17 or XFCE4 and use that as a window into the Debian/Ubuntu package archive then I'd be a very happy man!

Anyway, back to your post. I've run Angstrom (and OZ) on a Spitz and my experiences are as follows:

1. Set up Networking using USB Wifi with an rt73 based card - cant help here as I use CF cards. Both Prism and Orinoco seem to work just fine.

2. Wifi MUST support at least Managed and Monitor modes , with Monitor mode supporting packet injection. Yes, monitor mode and Kismet run fine with Prism and Orinoco. I did have some success with packet injection using a Prism card. See below.

3. install a good Web Browser. Konqueror under OPIE is pretty good for my requirements. Under GPE there is a build of Firefox but personally, I cant be bothered to wait a full minute for a browser to load when I just want to view some informaton. It's not as if it will give you Youtube or anything 'modern', so I'll take Konqueror (or Opera or Netfront on cacko) any time! Dillo sucks. Developers, please can we have something midway for X such as Galeon?

4. install LinNeighborhood - not tried it.

5. install good EMail client. The OPIE mail client is horrible. Sylpheed on GPE or under XQt is good.

6. install Aircrack-ng. Aircrack worked for me with a Prism card, but having proved that Aireplay can inject packets, I've not actually bothered to wait around to crack a WEP on my Z as it seems a bit pointless. I'm sure it will work but oh!, so slow! There is a video somewhere on the web of a guy doing packet injection from a Z with OZ. search around here somewhere. http://hackaday.com/2006/07/22/aircrack-ru...a-zaurus-c1000/

7. install Kismet. Works like a dream. Full colour and full control of sorting etc.

8. install Samba and support software. Samba works fine. Not sure what support software you want. Based on this, I guess LinNeighborhood should work fine.

9. install GUI MP3 Player. OPIE has a GUI media player.

10, install CUPS. Not tried it.

11. install MySQL Server. Not tried it.

Hope that helps. Do let us know how you get on. If you find bugs then feed them back to the devs through their preferred channel which is NOT this forum.