Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..? Options

[pixelator]

Hi all, first post (well, practically).

I found a 3200 at a flea market recently and was going to sell, but my penchant for gadgetry has, I think, overcome my desire for extra holiday funds. So, it's likely going to stay here with me for at least a while... Or I decide it doesn't serve much useful purpose (and I've decided that of lots of PDA's and similar items, including a Fujitsu U810 a couple of months ago - a fun gadget but too small for XP and the keyboard was neither thumb- nor touch-type friendly).

Anyway, I was wondering what the deal was with distros. I initially put pdaXii113 Akita Full on it but found the lag for opening apps and general speed to be really intolerable. I repartitioned/restored the HD for Cacko 1.23 and that's what I am running now. It's clean and fairly quick, but I wonder if I'm missing much flexibility. What about just plain old pdaXrom? Spitz vs. Akita? Yep, I've done some googling and some searching of these forums but haven't yet uncovered a thread that answered these questions (especially not one that was fairly recent).

Also, I'm gleaning that there's no simple method of getting Firefox/Mozilla on Cacko - so is there a Java and Flash ipk or other procedure to get streaming video and other flash or web based stuff running on it? Bear in mind, before this thing my Linux experience was limited to one simple install of Ubuntu on a desktop for work - and that's it.

Many thanks...

[Jon_J]

You'll need to add a linux partition to the HDD.
There are three partitions:
hdd1 ext2 9MB - system files required by sharp/cacko
hdd2 ext2 9MB - system files required by sharp/cacko
hdd3 Vfat Almost 4 GB C3100, Almost 6GB C3200, (minus 18MB) used to connect to windows machines for storage.
Meanie suggests to partition up the last partition into two partitions.
You'll need a linux partition, let's say hdd4
Once you have that accomplished, you can install pkgs to it.
The GUI installer, (qinstall) will NOT "see" this new partition.
You need to install pkgs in the commandline.
The best way to do this is to use a feed that will pull the dependencies along with the pkg that you want to install.