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Title: Debian
Post by: bam on November 05, 2005, 03:49:07 am
has anyone got this installed on a 3100 in chroot mode?
If yes, then how does the chroot enviro work "booting" wise?

other words does it boot to console initially then you chose an wm from there? Are there scripts for this?

Currently I have a 1Gb partition with the debian/pocketworkstation extracted into debroot, the partition is ext2 format, and it is mounted at boot(via rc.rofilesys script modification)


Personally I would like it to boot to console then have a script print Debian=1, Qt=2, then type in a 1 or 2 depending on what I want.


Any help would be appreciated.
Title: Debian
Post by: GadgetGuy on November 05, 2005, 12:41:16 pm
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has anyone got this installed on a 3100 in chroot mode?
If yes, then how does the chroot enviro work "booting" wise?

other words does it boot to console initially then you chose an wm from there? Are there scripts for this?

Currently I have a 1Gb partition with the debian/pocketworkstation extracted into debroot, the partition is ext2 format, and it is mounted at boot(via rc.rofilesys script modification)


Personally I would like it to boot to console then have a script print Debian=1, Qt=2, then type in a 1 or 2 depending on what I want.


Any help would be appreciated.
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I have installed it - but then removed it.

It worked by booting into Qtopia, then shutting down qtopia and launching pocketworkstation / debian.

I removed it, because I was unable to find a way to connect to my wifi network from within Debian... I experiment for now with Meanie's various Debian packages...
Title: Debian
Post by: bam on November 05, 2005, 07:58:42 pm
i was thinking of making some auto-startup script at the end of rc.rofilesys. For instance it would pause  for 5 seconds, if say the keyboard letter 'd" is typed goto Debian, but if left alone then goto qt.

No wifi working, dang, I need that for the updates. what was the problem specifically? the card or just a unknown software config?

has anyone got wifi to work with it?
Title: Debian
Post by: Chero on November 06, 2005, 03:11:38 pm
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i was thinking of making some auto-startup script at the end of rc.rofilesys. For instance it would pause  for 5 seconds, if say the keyboard letter 'd" is typed goto Debian, but if left alone then goto qt.

No wifi working, dang, I need that for the updates. what was the problem specifically? the card or just a unknown software config?

has anyone got wifi to work with it?
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[a href=\"http://zaurusfun.4t.com/index.html]How to dual-boot qtopia/debian on a c750[/url]
Title: Debian
Post by: GadgetGuy on November 06, 2005, 10:28:38 pm
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No wifi working, dang, I need that for the updates. what was the problem specifically? the card or just a unknown software config?


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I have no idea how to activate my wifi card from within debian... Since I am a newbie, that may be easy to do for someone more experienced - but I do not know how...
Title: Debian
Post by: bam on November 06, 2005, 11:34:19 pm
right now I cant even get debian to boot, the farthest I have gotten is the stylus calibration, then gave me an error about expecting 20 -vs- 8(what it recieved), past that, havent been able to get back to that point yet, and I replaced Fbvnc with the one modified for the 3000 series too.
Title: Debian
Post by: bam on November 07, 2005, 05:28:15 am
is the filesystem provided a 'bootable filesystem'? If so I may be able to use altBoot, someone reported this being useable on the 3100 series.
Title: Debian
Post by: GadgetGuy on November 07, 2005, 11:30:55 am
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right now I cant even get debian to boot, the farthest I have gotten is the stylus calibration, then gave me an error about expecting 20 -vs- 8(what it recieved), past that, havent been able to get back to that point yet, and I replaced Fbvnc with the one modified for the 3000 series too.
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Did you change the config files for 640x480 screen size (as described here: [a href=\"http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/leurent/zaurus.html)]http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/leurent/zaurus.html)[/url] ? I had the same problem, but I think the config file change solved it...
Title: Debian
Post by: bam on November 08, 2005, 02:40:29 am
still same error, "expecting 20 bytes, recieved 16 now" what does that mean? Tried the new zvncserver script from pocketworkstation's site(says it handles the SL-CXXX series configs better) I see that aterm icewm and "other" debian programs are running but looks like Fbvnc is giving me problems.

tried again same issue, so if anyone has this running, any chance in posting your Vncserver script? Any help will be appreciated.

I can press enter without touching the screen and I see the sweet debian enviro. But soon as I touch the screen, crash. Ideas?
Title: Debian
Post by: Chero on November 08, 2005, 03:54:34 pm
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No wifi working, dang, I need that for the updates. what was the problem specifically? the card or just a unknown software config?


[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=102486\")

I have no idea how to activate my wifi card from within debian... Since I am a newbie, that may be easy to do for someone more experienced - but I do not know how...
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[a href=\"http://wiki.debian.org/PockeWorkstationFaqHowTo]how to get debian chroot wifi working[/url]
Title: Debian
Post by: GadgetGuy on November 08, 2005, 03:57:37 pm
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No wifi working, dang, I need that for the updates. what was the problem specifically? the card or just a unknown software config?


[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=102486\")

I have no idea how to activate my wifi card from within debian... Since I am a newbie, that may be easy to do for someone more experienced - but I do not know how...
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=102632\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

[a href=\"http://wiki.debian.org/PockeWorkstationFaqHowTo]how to get debian chroot wifi working[/url]
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Thank you. I have seen that. However I still dont know how to enter my SSID and WEP code... If I just follow the instructions, the Wifi light starts blinking but nothing else happens...
Title: Debian
Post by: bam on November 09, 2005, 03:27:02 am
finally got it, I feel stupid. Will post a "very detailed" tutorial on my site soon.