QUOTE(arzgi @ Sep 20 2009, 04:10 PM)

QUOTE(pelrun @ Sep 14 2009, 11:58 AM)

I suggest checking that your partitioning setup is correct - it's possible to make it so that multiple partitions partially overlap each other or extend past the actual size of the device, which can cause all sorts of intermittent and cumulative problems.
Thanks pelrun! Did that, everything ok there. So I once again started from scratch, made and formatted partitions,
Then flashed
http://www.bigbridgezau.sakura.ne.jp/dev/debian kernel 2.6.20 and installed rootfs. At this point,
etch on my Z runs fine. Cron must be started manually. When I upgrade to lenny, all other debs got installed
fine, cron is stopped and restared during update a few times, no problem there. But dpkg can not install lenny's
cron. Seems that post install script's chgrp is the problem. Or chgrp does not work, because cron is not working.
And that makes system quite unusable.
Blah, tricky one. Perhaps next time I'll bang my head to wall with eabi kernel and oabi system.
Since I bought an N810 I've not dabbled much with my Zauruses, however there are still occasions where they ust can't be beaten so I'm planning on keepng them!!!.
I recently had exactly this experience when converting my C3100 back from a very good OZ build to Zdevil's Debian. At first, apt-get and aptitude were just broken and several builds just died. However, after a bit of googling and tinkering I did get a working system. Sadly, I did not record a step-by-step guide to getting out of jail, but here are a few pointers which might help you. I believe that this is not a problem unique to Zauruses, so use google - it is your friend.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5158301. set yout sources.list file to this - it is an older version which seems to help you get a foothold:
deb
http://debian.logiclinux.com/debian lenny main contrib non-free
2. Always use aptitude rather than apt-get. It seems more reliable. Start with aptitude update then aptitude install aptitude. If this works then you stand a fighting chance.
3. I then installed the apps I wanted, watching the various packages getting updates as I went. If the package does not exist then add this to your sources.list and run another aptitude update
deb
http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
OK. So most things now work fine, but it is not 100%. Things like python are just too old. I might try an aptitude safe-upgrade otherwise it is a rebuild using yongun's rootfs for me now. I'll let you know how I get on.