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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New pdaXrom installer (to have just Root partition)

« on: April 15, 2004, 03:15:44 pm »

Hi everybody!!

At last! And seems to work!...

I\'ve written a modification of pdaxrom installer which allows to easily resize nand to have JUST THE ROOT PARTITION, WITH NO HOME.

No fragmentation. Full space to install everything you what (100 MB free after install rom on a Cx60!!). Of course, /home now is on Root partition.

This is mainly thanks to ikm, who is the author of the trick.

It has been designed to be very careful before patching your Nand, but you must consider this as a beta version. Please backup your data before doing anything (maintenance menu backup is recommended). Also, for the moment, it was just tested with my 760. Take even more cares if you have another model.

You can find it in http://ciberia.ya.com/ashley_s/

Contents of new.tar:
   - updater.sh: to substitute pdaxrom updater.sh
   - updater.decoded: decoded version of the last
   - updater.decoded.cacko: decoded version of pdaxrom updater.sh
   - mtdtweak & mtdparts: you must put these together with updater.sh and tools.tar and initrd.bin from pdaXrom
   - encdesc: utility to encode and decode updater.sh files

Please try it with care and tell me bugs and succeeds in this topic :wink:

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Only root partition (wish)

« on: February 29, 2004, 06:26:03 am »

As many of you have noticed, new pdaXrom has many \"disk\" space problems. I love it\'s true Unix layout, much better than Qtopia, wich I wasn\'t able to understood completely and seemed me horrible. I think much of the performance improvement of this rom should be due to the new plain structure, without compressed volumes, ramdisk, etc.

The problem is that it keeps the partition structure of Qtopia, despite it\'s a nonsense now to split /home from /. In Qtopia, it makes sense because apps are installed under /home. In the new rom apps are installed in /usr, thus in root partition.

So, when you install some apps you\'ll run out of root space soon, while /home keeps unused. The first solution would be to increase, much more than cacko recommends, the root partition with the installer. However I\'ve been trying it and does not work. Installer does things wrong if you instruct to do this. It seems that it can\'t format and flash a big root partition.

I don\'t know if I can get installer source code in order to see what it does and change it. My wish would be to get just one large root partition. I don\'t know if it\'s doable.

Unfortunately, I have another big problem with the new rom: I use gnumeric for my daily work. I need one spreadsheet. I\'ve tried to put gnumeric from the previous feed to the new rom, but it crashes. Seem to have a problem with libgsf (of course, it is installed). Does new rom use a different glibc version or so?

And as a commentary, I don\'t like matchbox, I wanna see my desktop! I liked much more Rox...

Ash.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / USB storage mode

« on: February 04, 2004, 11:48:30 am »

For my surprise I found a couple of days ago that x11 ROM has a utility for switching to the c860 storage mode

I don\'t know if this has been reported previously in this forum, I\'m following it since it was created and don\'t remember.

It\'s the /etc/usbcontrol script.

net and storage options worked me ok, switching z between normal (c760) and storage (c860) modes. Tested with several linux boxes and windows.
serial mode hanged my Z, but I think it\'s useless (for me)

But I have a problem: in storage mode I can only access to my CF card, not my SD. I\'ve tried many things: remove CF and restart, mount, umount,...
Also tried to modify /etc/hotplug/usbstorage.agent, but any change seem to work. Is it really called when /etc/usbcontrol storage is executed?

A solution could be make a ln -s fron my CF to my SD or even internal flash, but I can\'t since my CF is vfat (windows compatibility :x )

Any ideas?