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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: Storm on April 05, 2006, 09:46:49 am
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Been looking for the new Hentges image for Collie. Any idea when it will be available?
--Storm
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Been looking for the new Hentges image for Collie. Any idea when it will be available?
--Storm
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Probably next week. Akita & Collie GPE images are 98% done, Opie needs some more testing but could be shipped as it is.
I'm currently waiting for a few not-so minor bugs to be fixed in 3.5.4.1
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I would like to add Opie Camera to a Hentges build. Is it documented somewhere how that can be done?
Is it different then adding it to a base release?
In the past Hentges use or format of the SD card was different then a base release. Is this still true? If so how is it different?
Thanks - Dan
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I would like to add Opie Camera to a Hentges build. Is it documented somewhere how that can be done?
Is it different then adding it to a base release?
It isn't.
In the past Hentges use or format of the SD card was different then a base release. Is this still true? If so how is it different?
Thanks - Dan
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It was never different after the installation was completed.
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I await its arrival with eager anticipations .. ok ok, with a drooling face and open arms!
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RC4 with GPE and Opie for Collie and Akita is uploading ATM
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RC4 with GPE and Opie for Collie and Akita is uploading ATM
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Please forgive my ignorance but how is this ROM different than the OZ 3.5.4.1 GPE?
I went to the URL in your sig but failed to find a satisfactory answer.
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RC4 with GPE and Opie for Collie and Akita is uploading ATM
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Please forgive my ignorance but how is this ROM different than the OZ 3.5.4.1 GPE?
I went to the URL in your sig but failed to find a satisfactory answer.
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On Collie it offers support for CardFS, on Akita it ships with a few more selected apps than a default image. But [a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/screenshots/Zaurus/Akita/GPE/3.5.4.1-alpha2/]pictures[/url] say more than a thousand words.
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excellent, is there a link?
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RC4 with GPE and Opie for Collie and Akita is uploading ATM
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Please forgive my ignorance but how is this ROM different than the OZ 3.5.4.1 GPE?
I went to the URL in your sig but failed to find a satisfactory answer.
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On Collie it offers support for CardFS, on Akita it ships with a few more selected apps than a default image. But [a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/screenshots/Zaurus/Akita/GPE/3.5.4.1-alpha2/]pictures[/url] say more than a thousand words.
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Neat and interesting.
So would you say it's a sort of parallel ROM to the common OZ ROM?
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RC4 with GPE and Opie for Collie and Akita is uploading ATM
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Please forgive my ignorance but how is this ROM different than the OZ 3.5.4.1 GPE?
I went to the URL in your sig but failed to find a satisfactory answer.
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On Collie it offers support for CardFS, on Akita it ships with a few more selected apps than a default image. But [a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/screenshots/Zaurus/Akita/GPE/3.5.4.1-alpha2/]pictures[/url] say more than a thousand words.
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Neat and interesting.
So would you say it's a sort of parallel ROM to the common OZ ROM?
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Yes it its.
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RC4 with GPE and Opie for Collie and Akita is uploading ATM
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Please forgive my ignorance but how is this ROM different than the OZ 3.5.4.1 GPE?
I went to the URL in your sig but failed to find a satisfactory answer.
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On Collie it offers support for CardFS, on Akita it ships with a few more selected apps than a default image. But [a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/screenshots/Zaurus/Akita/GPE/3.5.4.1-alpha2/]pictures[/url] say more than a thousand words.
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Neat and interesting.
So would you say it's a sort of parallel ROM to the common OZ ROM?
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Yes it its.
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Where is the upload?
Thanks - Dan
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The upload completed an hour or so ago.
http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/ (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/)
Please check the following thread for usage instructions:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18503 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18503)
Happy flashing
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I am confused.
I found the feed. I am currently running Hentges 3.5.3 T3. That was releases as a system 'package'. This release appears to be back to a module by module format?
That said, I did not see the zImage or initrd releases for 3.4.5.1? Where are they?
Thanks - Dan
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I am confused.
I found the feed. I am currently running Hentges 3.5.3 T3. That was releases as a system 'package'. This release appears to be back to a module by module format?
That said, I did not see the zImage or initrd releases for 3.4.5.1? Where are they?
Thanks - Dan
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Check the subdirectories again. The header-text should make it clear what's inside.
For an old-style collie install you'd download the initrd.bin (collie/hentges-*-image*)
and one cardfs file (collie/cardfs/*)
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I am confused.
I found the feed. I am currently running Hentges 3.5.3 T3. That was releases as a system 'package'. This release appears to be back to a module by module format?
That said, I did not see the zImage or initrd releases for 3.4.5.1? Where are they?
Thanks - Dan
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Check the subdirectories again. The header-text should make it clear what's inside.
For an old-style collie install you'd download the initrd.bin (collie/hentges-*-image*)
and one cardfs file (collie/cardfs/*)
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Unless I'm mistaken, I can only see German files. Are the English versions about to be uploaded?
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I am confused.
I found the feed. I am currently running Hentges 3.5.3 T3. That was releases as a system 'package'. This release appears to be back to a module by module format?
That said, I did not see the zImage or initrd releases for 3.4.5.1? Where are they?
Thanks - Dan
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Check the subdirectories again. The header-text should make it clear what's inside.
For an old-style collie install you'd download the initrd.bin (collie/hentges-*-image*)
and one cardfs file (collie/cardfs/*)
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Unless I'm mistaken, I can only see German files. Are the English versions about to be uploaded?
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Ahem, oops. Well, for the time beeing just select the english language at opies configuration wizzard during first-boot.
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mucho thanks coredump, the hentges roms have made using the zaurus easier for a non-developer type like myself to get everything up and running.
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I can not find either a initrd.bin or a cardfs file in this path:
http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/machines/collie/ (http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/machines/collie/)
Am I looking in the right place?
Thanks - Dan
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Now I have an error that I'm running the wrong kernel. Kernel from http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/k...60409201626.bin (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/kernel/zImage-collie-58-6-20060409201626.bin) and initrd.bin from http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/h...e_T1-RC4.tar.gz (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4.tar.gz)
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I can not find either a initrd.bin or a cardfs file in this path:
http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/machines/collie/ (http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/machines/collie/)
Am I looking in the right place?
Thanks - Dan
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You might want to get your eyes checked
[a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/cardfs/]http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/cardfs/[/url]
and the initrd.bin is in one of the hentges-*-image files, just like in any previous release.
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Thanks - It was the /tmp/do_not_use/ that did it.
I currently have an old cardfs image installed. That implies the SD directories exist and are in use. Will a re-install work with these?
How is an upgrade from a previous version performed?
Thanks again - Dan
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Thanks - It was the /tmp/do_not_use/ that did it.
I currently have an old cardfs image installed. That implies the SD directories exist and are in use. Will a re-install work with these?
How is an upgrade from a previous version performed?
Thanks again - Dan
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The cardfs installer will allow you to remove the old files.
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Hi CoreDump,
I'm not having much luck with the latest version either. When I flash, the lights only come on for about thirty seconds, then go out. When I reboot, I get the error message about the wrong kernel. It seems to find zImage fine, and flash that, but not initrd.bin.
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Attempts to tar -zxvf hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4-3.5.4.1-alpha2-collie.rootfs.ext2.gz
do nothing.
It unziped without error but ended up a 150 MB file.
Is this a tar file? Why does tar -zxvf not work?
Thanks - Dan
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Attempts to tar -zxvf hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4-3.5.4.1-alpha2-collie.rootfs.ext2.gz
do nothing.
It unziped without error but ended up a 150 MB file.
Is this a tar file? Why does tar -zxvf not work?
Thanks - Dan
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Er, because its not a tar file. Its a gzipped ext2 image. Tarballs are usually denoted by either .tar.gz, .tgz or .tar.bz2 appended to the filename.
--Storm
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Hi CoreDump,
I'm not having much luck with the latest version either. When I flash, the lights only come on for about thirty seconds, then go out. When I reboot, I get the error message about the wrong kernel. It seems to find zImage fine, and flash that, but not initrd.bin.
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Well, check the naming of initrd.bin then
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Attempts to tar -zxvf hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4-3.5.4.1-alpha2-collie.rootfs.ext2.gz
do nothing.
It unziped without error but ended up a 150 MB file.
Is this a tar file? Why does tar -zxvf not work?
Thanks - Dan
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Please read the header text of the directory you got that file from:
[a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ext2/]http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ext2/[/url]
It points to a FAQ which explains what an .ext2 file is and what it is good for.
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Hi CoreDump,
I'm not having much luck with the latest version either. When I flash, the lights only come on for about thirty seconds, then go out. When I reboot, I get the error message about the wrong kernel. It seems to find zImage fine, and flash that, but not initrd.bin.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=122905\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
Well, check the naming of initrd.bin then
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I have exactly same problems. I can easily flash OZ 3.5.4 distribution, but old-style hentges installation fails. Lights come on for 10 seconds, and that's it. I'm using zImage-collie-64-0-20060409201626.bin renamed as zImage and initrd.bin extracted from hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4.tar.gz.
And yes, I have double-checked naming of initrd.bin.
Veekoo
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It looks like the subdirectories are causing some confusing, so I'll try one last time to explain what this is all about.
A normal OZ / Hentges installation is flashed into the "ROM" of your Z. For a flash installation you need a flash image (called initrd.bin) which contains the rootfs in jffs2 format and a kernel (zImage for Collie, zImage.bin for Akita).
So, to install Hentges / OZ into the flash of your Z you'll have to download:
One kernel from $MACHINE/kernel/
One initrd.bin from $MACHINE/hentges-*-image*
The file hentges-*-image* is a compressed tarball which contains initrd.bin, you'll have to extract it first (winzip can do so just fine)
This isn't too complicated, now is it?
Also Hentges on Collie supports a so-called CardFs file. A cardfs file contains applications that can be installed onto SD or CF in addition to the apps shipped with a normal flash installation.
To use cardfs (which you really should on Collie) you'll have to download one more file in addition to the above:
One cardfs file from $MACHINE/cardfs
Make sure you download the GPE cardfs for a GPE initrd.bin and an Opie cardfs for an Opie initrd.bin (well, this should be obvious...)
To install, copy all 3 files (initrd.bin, zImage and cardfs*.bin) on your CF card and flash as usual. You'll be prompted to install the CardFF on first boot.
That's it, really!
Now to the other subdirectories / files included with this release
$MACHINE/ext2 contains - as the name suggests - ext2 loop images which can be booted directly off SD or CF using Altboot. The header text in that directory points to a FAQ explaining how to do that....
$MACHINE/tarballs contains a full rootfs (the stuff inside initrd.bin) in a compressed tarball. This is also to be used with altboot and this directory also features a header text explaining just that and where to look for more info.
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Hi CoreDump,
I'm not having much luck with the latest version either. When I flash, the lights only come on for about thirty seconds, then go out. When I reboot, I get the error message about the wrong kernel. It seems to find zImage fine, and flash that, but not initrd.bin.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=122905\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
Well, check the naming of initrd.bin then
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I have exactly same problems. I can easily flash OZ 3.5.4 distribution, but old-style hentges installation fails. Lights come on for 10 seconds, and that's it. I'm using zImage-collie-64-0-20060409201626.bin renamed as zImage and initrd.bin extracted from hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4.tar.gz.
And yes, I have double-checked naming of initrd.bin.
Veekoo
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Hmmm, the opie initrd looks a little bit too large. I'll check when I get home.
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Attempts to tar -zxvf hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4-3.5.4.1-alpha2-collie.rootfs.ext2.gz
do nothing.
It unziped without error but ended up a 150 MB file.
Is this a tar file? Why does tar -zxvf not work?
Thanks - Dan
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Please read the header text of the directory you got that file from:
[a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ext2/]http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ext2/[/url]
It points to a FAQ which explains what an .ext2 file is and what it is good for.
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Yes, I had read the FAQ. I was following the directions to extract the initrd.bin. The system is Linux. tar -zxvf seems to complete but it does not extract any files.
The FAQ states that Winzip will work.
On a LInux system what is the preferred way to extract files from the .gz ?
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Attempts to tar -zxvf hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4-3.5.4.1-alpha2-collie.rootfs.ext2.gz
do nothing.
It unziped without error but ended up a 150 MB file.
Is this a tar file? Why does tar -zxvf not work?
Thanks - Dan
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Please read the header text of the directory you got that file from:
[a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ext2/]http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ext2/[/url]
It points to a FAQ which explains what an .ext2 file is and what it is good for.
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Yes, I had read the FAQ. I was following the directions to extract the initrd.bin. The system is Linux. tar -zxvf seems to complete but it does not extract any files.
The FAQ states that Winzip will work.
On a LInux system what is the preferred way to extract files from the .gz ?
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try gunzip
then tar -xf
I've had problems with tar -zxf sometimes and had to do the above.
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Attempts to tar -zxvf hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC4-3.5.4.1-alpha2-collie.rootfs.ext2.gz
do nothing.
It unziped without error but ended up a 150 MB file.
Is this a tar file? Why does tar -zxvf not work?
Thanks - Dan
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Please read the header text of the directory you got that file from:
[a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ext2/]http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ext2/[/url]
It points to a FAQ which explains what an .ext2 file is and what it is good for.
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Yes, I had read the FAQ. I was following the directions to extract the initrd.bin. The system is Linux. tar -zxvf seems to complete but it does not extract any files.
The FAQ states that Winzip will work.
On a LInux system what is the preferred way to extract files from the .gz ?
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As I already mentioned, the "*.ext2" file you are trying to extract is not a tarball.
It can not be extracted with tar -xzvf. And it isn't meant to be extracted in the first place.
The FAQ explains the concepts of an .ext2 nicely and it tells you how to use it.
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same error for me:
I used this files
initrd from
/collie/hentges-gpe-image-collie_T1-RC4.tar.gz
uncompressed it and copied the initrd.bin to CF
kernel from
/collie/kernel/zImage-collie-64-0-20060409201626.bin
unnamed to zImage and copied to CF
cardfs from
/collie/cardfs/cardfs-gpe-collie-openzaurus_oz3.5.4.1-alpha2-gpe2.7-T1-RC4.bin
copied to CF
and then flashed
but the lights only come on for about thirty seconds and then go out.
After that only the Kernel is flashed.
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I'm having the same problem (short light duration) with the henteges initrd. I can flash the stock oz kernel and opie without problem. Also, is it still possible to put the cardfs image on sd?
Thanks,
Greg
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I'm having the same problem (short light duration) with the henteges initrd. I can flash the stock oz kernel and opie without problem. Also, is it still possible to put the cardfs image on sd?
Thanks,
Greg
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I am looking at the initrd right now. It is too large to be flashable by the looks of it
And yes, you can place cardfs on SD or CF.
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Forget my last comment. The 3.5.4.1 branch can not produce working initrd..bins for Collie, investigating..
Note for the curious: I always boot from NFS when developing.
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Forget my last comment. The 3.5.4.1 branch can not produce working initrd..bins for Collie, investigating..
Note for the curious: I always boot from NFS when developing.
OK Thanks for the reply. I've used your CardFS before and had no problems previously. I've had my zaurus for a few years now, and to be honest, each release of Opie has become more problematic than the previous. I've been using Slackware for about five years now, so I am now stranger to GNU/Linux and the power of that in a PDA really appealed to me. Add to that the chance to play any kind of media I wanted regardless of format made it the ultimate media device for me. The first release of Opie I tried was wonderful for this, it played video brilliantly and any MP3s I threw at it. I don't really use it much for contacts or to do lists, so most of the software on Opie/GPE is a gimmick for me. The collie is too small for web browsing/text editing, and the limited battery life of an hour and a half has become a real frustration. It takes several weeks after each release to get everything working as I like, so now rather than buy a new C Series as I was going to do, I'm just going to get an iPod.
Good luck with all your endeavours, Opie/GPE are great projects, but for me they just seem to be going further and further away from what I want.
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"One initrd.bin from $MACHINE/hentges-*-image*
The file hentges-*-image* is a compressed tarball which contains initrd.bin, you'll have to extract it first (winzip can do so just fine)"
This is a cut from install instructions. I am unable to extract initrd.bin from the tarball. Can someone provide instructions on how to do this? Attempts to work with these .gz files result in a 157 MB ext2 file.
Thanks for you your help - Dan
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Those expanded .gz files (both opie and gpe) are definitely very large, I also ended up with .ext2 files 153 megabytes in size. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, but you will need a decent size CF or SD card to store one, or both!, of them.
The hentges-*-image* files end in the extension '.tar.gz'
With Linux, they can be extracted using
tar xvzf (filename)
I am afraid I do not know how to extract tar/gz files with Windows, but there is bound to be a program somewhere! Tar is quite an old file archiving program, I remember using it when I had an Amiga
Anyway, the current initrd.bin files do not work with my collie (SL-5500), as CoreDump mentions previously in this thread.
Cheerio, David.
"One initrd.bin from $MACHINE/hentges-*-image*
The file hentges-*-image* is a compressed tarball which contains initrd.bin, you'll have to extract it first (winzip can do so just fine)"
This is a cut from install instructions. I am unable to extract initrd.bin from the tarball. Can someone provide instructions on how to do this? Attempts to work with these .gz files result in a 157 MB ext2 file.
Thanks for you your help - Dan
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Well, I've found the problem with the collie images, they were indeed to large. Collies firmware detected this and refused to flash the initrd.bin. I'm currently rebuilding and reuploading, stay tuned.
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CoreDump I would just like to say thanks for working so hard on collie based rom
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CoreDump I would just like to say thanks for working so hard on collie based rom
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You're welcome
New Collie images are uploading, ETA is about 1.5hrs.
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The new Collie images are online: http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/)
Happy flashing
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The flash went well. SD cardfs worked like charm too. Thanks for the fix!
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The flash went well. SD cardfs worked like charm too. Thanks for the fix!
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I am still unable to extract the initrd.bin from the .gz file. What commands did you use to uncompress the file? What did the uncompressed file produce. Gunzip still produces a 157 MB file - this does not seem to be correct.
Sorry to repeat the same questions - but the problem remains.
Thanks - Dan
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The flash went well. SD cardfs worked like charm too. Thanks for the fix!
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I am still unable to extract the initrd.bin from the .gz file. What commands did you use to uncompress the file? What did the uncompressed file produce. Gunzip still produces a 157 MB file - this does not seem to be correct.
Sorry to repeat the same questions - but the problem remains.
Thanks - Dan
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And I have already told you _3_ times why that is, that you have the wrong file from the wrong directory, a directoy which header text points to a FAQ explaining what that file is you have.
I have even written a lengthy response explaining _exactly_ which files are needed for flashing, including the directory where you find them.
I'm deeply sorry but I can not make myself any clearer.
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Thanks for that comment- that was the exact pointer that was needed.
The replies never actually said I had the wrong file - the comments were more about how to use the file I had - that was the confusing point for -3- tries.
Thanks - Dan
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So when will the final release of 3.5.4.1 be issued? Sorry if this seems like an uneducated question.
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This seems to be working great so far on my 5500, thanks!
Although I can't seem to get it to recognise my socket bluetooth CF card (rev f). 3.5.3 hentges rom recognised it, though I never managed to set it up. Comes up as 'unsupported card'.
Is that a missing driver problem?
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This seems to be working great so far on my 5500, thanks!
Although I can't seem to get it to recognise my socket bluetooth CF card (rev f). 3.5.3 hentges rom recognised it, though I never managed to set it up. Comes up as 'unsupported card'.
Is that a missing driver problem?
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Could be, yes. I don't any any BT CF cards to check however.
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Hi
Many thanks Coredump for the great release.
The install of the revised collie version of opie worked fine, but I have found a small problem.
I cannot start a usb network connection.
ifconfig reveals that irda1 and loopback are configured but usb0 is not configured. I ran the network configuration tool and changed the setting to my normal setting and then tried to start the device and I get the error message "Starting interface failed".
I am also unable to stop the interfaces that are started.
I would appreciate some help.
Samac
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Hi
Many thanks Coredump for the great release.
The install of the revised collie version of opie worked fine, but I have found a small problem.
I cannot start a usb network connection.
ifconfig reveals that irda1 and loopback are configured but usb0 is not configured. I ran the network configuration tool and changed the setting to my normal setting and then tried to start the device and I get the error message "Starting interface failed".
I am also unable to stop the interfaces that are started.
I would appreciate some help.
Samac
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Please run ifdown usb0 / ifup usb0 from the console and post the output.
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Please run ifdown usb0 / ifup usb0 from the console and post the output.
ifdown usb0
route: SIOC[ADD|DEL]RT: No such device
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
ifup usb0
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
route: SIOC[ADD|DEL]RT: No such device
Hope this helps
Samac
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Just got round to installing this one and was looking forward to it but now I can't install packages or access interweb through usb.
Settings are
IP 192.168.0.100
subnet 255.255.255.0
First DNS 192.168.1.1
Second DNS 192.168.1.100
These settings have always worked for me in the past and reflashing to previous Hentges RC still works on these settings still works today.
No problems flashing but interweb so therefore packages won't connect.
I want to be current and stay with current RC so any suggestions/hints/rtfm's gratefully recieved.
have installed zImage collie 64/0 correctly renamed, initrd.bin and cardfs - error message from ipkg in Konsole is Host name look up failure.
Thanks as always for the help.
Chas
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Just got round to installing this one and was looking forward to it but now I can't install packages or access interweb through usb.
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Make sure you've got the needed modules loaded. Should at least have usbdcore loaded.
Have you got your routing sorted out correctly? and your gateway specified correctly.
Also, be sure to make sure the machine you're connecting the zarus to by usb has connection sharing etc set up.
Kelly
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Looks like I need to get my craddle from the basement
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Looks like I need to get my craddle from the basement
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Yes please.
Kellyharding.
Routing/Sharing is all ok with my xp box and everything worked perfectly on previous RC from January.
Installed kernel module usbdcore is the same as the one in the 3.5.4 feed.
Thanks for the advice though.
Charlie
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Seem to be having some odd problems with my Socket LP CF wifi card using this rom and OPIE.
Seems to work fine under GPE. But I've found GPE is a bit too unstable for me, the console and packagemanager for example seem to die randomly on me.
Anyway, back to the wifi.
getting:
eth0: Error -5 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
(repeats a number of times)
eth0: New Link Status: Disconnected (0002)
I don't get this behaviour when I've flashed with the GPE image, are there different kernel modules or something like that with the OPIE image?
Kelly
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http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/2006/04/12...with-wifi-card/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/2006/04/12/problem-with-wifi-card/)
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i really like the download progress read outs during package management ! is there anyway that can happen in standard 3.5.4 ??
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i really like the download progress read outs during package management ! is there anyway that can happen in standard 3.5.4 ??
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i found that the "apkg" package when the "troubleshooting output" option is selected does this, as may the standard pkg manager when in the "information level" selection but im finding apkg work better.
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http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/2006/04/12...with-wifi-card/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/2006/04/12/problem-with-wifi-card/)
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Have posted relelvent information to bugs.openembedded.org
Hope it proves helpful, if you need any more information on it just ask.
Kelly
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Flashed happily and rebooted happily ... and am now using the new hentges rom happily!
Thanks CoreDump!
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Still trying to figure out how to get the Belkin ir keyboard to work ...
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Just finished flashing. Excellent job, Coredump!
Noticed something strange though. I installed bash, and changed root's prompt to /bin/bash. When I log in, it gives me the command prompt normally. However, after the first command completes (e.g. ls -l or anything else), the prompt does not return. Control-C has no effect, though ssh commands (like ~.) do work.
I had the same configuration on 3.5.4, and it worked fine.
Ideas?
--Storm
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After some testing/use of 3.5.4.1alpha2, I am seeing some hard lockups on my Zaurus that didn't happen in 3.5.4rc. It appears to happen whenever I have it on for more than a minute. I reflashed it last night, and after configuring it, was reading an e-book. When I tried to suspend (with the power switch), it was locked. No response from the touchscreen or autoscrolling. I reset (flipping battery cover switch) it and put it on the cradle to charge overnight. When I got up this morning and pulled it off the cradle, again it was locked up. I couldn't tap the icons on the desktop, nothing. I reset it again, and left it sitting while I packed up my laptop, and in that short amount of time, It locked hard again.
I reset it, and as soon as it came up, I suspended it, and thats where I am now. One other thing I noticed is that whenever it boots, there is a message, "stty: standard input: bad file descriptor" or something to that effect. Possibly unrelated, but I figured I would throw it out there.
Has anyone else seen this type of behavior?
Thanks.
--Storm
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After some testing/use of 3.5.4.1alpha2, I am seeing some hard lockups on my Zaurus that didn't happen in 3.5.4rc. It appears to happen whenever I have it on for more than a minute. I reflashed it last night, and after configuring it, was reading an e-book. When I tried to suspend (with the power switch), it was locked. No response from the touchscreen or autoscrolling. I reset (flipping battery cover switch) it and put it on the cradle to charge overnight. When I got up this morning and pulled it off the cradle, again it was locked up. I couldn't tap the icons on the desktop, nothing. I reset it again, and left it sitting while I packed up my laptop, and in that short amount of time, It locked hard again.
I reset it, and as soon as it came up, I suspended it, and thats where I am now. One other thing I noticed is that whenever it boots, there is a message, "stty: bad file descriptor" or something to that effect. Possibly unrelated, but I figured I would throw it out there.
Has anyone else seen this type of behavior?
Thanks.
--Storm
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Yup, I've noticed both problems on my SL5500. The suspend issue seems to occur every other suspension, I think.
Also, after flashing the ROM and installing cardfs, I had to do an ipkg-link to get most of the packages on SD working.
lastly, have not had any luck getting my wired ethernet PCMCIA card working, even after installing axnet package and checking the conf file. Although it's detecred as a Linksys PCM100 v3 (correct), the taskbar icon to eject lists it as a completely different device and the axnet library remains unused.
Apart from that, it feels excellent. Indeed the responsiveness is much improved over 3.5.3.
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Re: Lockups
I'm using my Collie daily with the exact same image as found in do_not_use and I can't reproduce any lockups so far.
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Re: Lockups
I'm using my Collie daily with the exact same image as found in do_not_use and I can't reproduce any lockups so far.
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Hmmm...Lest I missed something important, let me run through my steps.
My hardware config is an SL-5500 with a 1GB Sandisk SD card. I flashed from a 32MB Sandisk CF. I untarred hentges-opie-image-collie_T1-RC4.tar.gz onto the CF card, verified the md5sum of initrd.bin, zImage-collie-64-0-20060409201626.bin (renamed to zImage) and cardfs-opie-collie-openzaurus_oz3.5.4.1-alpha2-opie1.2.1-T1-RC4.bin. I also copied the cardfs image to the SD card.
I flashed the unit as I always have (C-D and reset, when the lights went out after about 3 minutes, reset and replaced the battery cover). I pulled the CF card and let it boot up. Going through the prompts, I set up cardfs on the SD card (which remained inserted the entire time), and it came up to opie.
That is all I did. I haven't even tried to install any additional software. I can provide specific answers to the questions during the install if that helps. I was wondering if it was my SD card, but it is less than 8 months old, and since arniel is having the same issues, unless it was a bad run of them, I tend to doubt it.
I thought it was just a suspend issue myself, until I found that it had locked up on the cradle last night. By default, the Zaurus is set to never suspend on power. *shrug*
Do you see any step I might have missed? I may try reflashing with the gpe image to see if I get the same symptoms.
--Storm
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Well, I don't see anything wrong there. Did you install any additional software beside what's inside the base install + cardfs?
Could you check if these lockups happen if you use the Opie menu to suspend and not the Cancel button?
BTW: The "bad filedescriptor" massage is harmless and is fixed in recent altboot versions.
I'll pred an upgrade feed in the next few days which will pull in all changed to upgrade the OZ version from 3.5.4.1-alpha* to 3.5.4.1-rc1, I just hope Collies' on-board flash won't fill up like its known to do...
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Hey Coredump,
Really appreciate your efforts on this ROM release.
I just reflashed again to get a clean system (just like Storm above) and then got my USB networking up. Did a suspend on the cradle and it locked up hard.
One thing I noticed in /etc/ipkg.conf is that one of the machine specific feeds pointed to the akita directory (can't remember which one but I changed it to collie as it should be). Not sure if this could have had a potential impact on when these images were built.
Also I take it the opie feed is not included in the config file to make it generic and therefore needs to be added manually.
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Well, I don't see anything wrong there. Did you install any additional software beside what's inside the base install + cardfs?
No. It is the base flash. I did it a total of 3 times over this weekend, and this last time, after I noticed the lockup issue, I did not install anything additional.
Could you check if these lockups happen if you use the Opie menu to suspend and not the Cancel button?
They do not. Its behaving like the early days of OZ3.5.3.
BTW: The "bad filedescriptor" massage is harmless and is fixed in recent altboot versions.
I suspected this, but I figured it might be another piece of the puzzle, so I reported it just in case.
I'll pred an upgrade feed in the next few days which will pull in all changed to upgrade the OZ version from 3.5.4.1-alpha* to 3.5.4.1-rc1, I just hope Collies' on-board flash won't fill up like its known to do...
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Could the kernel have somehow gotten rolled back to an early 3.5.3 one? This appears to be (now that you pointed it out) the same suspend problem that we were having before.
I'm going to hold off on installing any more software until we pin this down. BTW, is there any reason why installing bash and changing root's shell to it would cause it to hang after the first command? It didn't do this in 3.5.4rc.
--Storm
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Now that you mentioned, I'm also getting the lockups. ... It would hang when I try to shut it down. Screen stays on with backlight but system is hanged. hmmm
I also get the "stty: standard input: bad file descriptor" error
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me too, it will lock up going into and out of suspend, i also get the "stty: standard input: bad file descriptor" error at start up,
im running 3.5.4 with loop image boot of cd with altboot rather than henteges cardfs though im sure they are very similiar ...
sometimes it take a few seconds to get responsiveness from the screen after resume, and if i try and push the button again it will go back into suspend or lock up....
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me too, it will lock up going into and out of suspend, i also get the "stty: standard input: bad file descriptor" error at start up,
im running 3.5.4 with loop image boot of cd with altboot rather than henteges cardfs though im sure they are very similiar ...
sometimes it take a few seconds to get responsiveness from the screen after resume, and if i try and push the button again it will go back into suspend or lock up....
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I'll check if Collies kernel includes the resume patch in the oz354x branch. I don't see why it would be missing tho.
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Another issue with the latest Hentges. Are the package lists complete? I tried to install opie-mediaplayer2 (some of the podcasts I download can't be played by xmms, so I wanted to experiment with them in the media player), and it could not find it.
root@collie:~# ipkg update
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4//feed/upgrades/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/upgrades
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4//feed/upgrades/machine/collie/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/machine-upgrades
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4//feed/machine/collie/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/machine
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4//feed/base/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/base
Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/machines/akita//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/hentges-collie
Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/shared//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/hentges-shared
Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/upgrades//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/hentges-upgrades
root@collie:~# ipkg -d sd install opie-mediaplayer2
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package opie-mediaplayer2.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'
ipkg list shows it in the repository, but the Zaurus can't find it at download time. Another thing I noticed was that totem-docs was listed, but totem was not.`Conversely, after the first flash of 3.5.4.1, I was starting to install the extra packages I wanted, and did an ipkg list_installed and redirected to a file. I diffed this against the package list I had installed from 3.5.4rc, and some packages were not listed even though they were installed. bzip2 was one I encountered before I started finding other problems and wound up reflashing.
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Another issue with the latest Hentges. Are the package lists complete? I tried to install opie-mediaplayer2 (some of the podcasts I download can't be played by xmms, so I wanted to experiment with them in the media player), and it could not find it.
root@collie:~# ipkg update
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4//feed/upgrades/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/upgrades
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4//feed/upgrades/machine/collie/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/machine-upgrades
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4//feed/machine/collie/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/machine
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4//feed/base/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/base
Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/machines/akita//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/hentges-collie
Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/shared//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/hentges-shared
Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/hentges-feeds/3.5.4.1/upgrades//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /var/ipkg/lists/hentges-upgrades
root@collie:~# ipkg -d sd install opie-mediaplayer2
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package opie-mediaplayer2.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'
ipkg list shows it in the repository, but the Zaurus can't find it at download time. Another thing I noticed was that totem-docs was listed, but totem was not.`Conversely, after the first flash of 3.5.4.1, I was starting to install the extra packages I wanted, and did an ipkg list_installed and redirected to a file. I diffed this against the package list I had installed from 3.5.4rc, and some packages were not listed even though they were installed. bzip2 was one I encountered before I started finding other problems and wound up reflashing.
--Storm
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Right, the feeds are not correctly setup. I'll probably drop the hentges feed (99% of it is a duplÃcate of the 3.5.4.1 feed anyway) and only keep a single "hentges-upgrade" feed, and maybe, just maybe a "machine" feed with the hentges ipk's which you won't find in the OZ feeds.
ipkg is slow enough as it is, no need to make it even worse with useless additional feeds
Feeds are a somewhat weak side over here as I generally never use the preconfigured feeds.
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Right, the feeds are not correctly setup. I'll probably drop the hentges feed (99% of it is a duplÃcate of the 3.5.4.1 feed anyway) and only keep a single "hentges-upgrade" feed, and maybe, just maybe a "machine" feed with the hentges ipk's which you won't find in the OZ feeds.
ipkg is slow enough as it is, no need to make it even worse with useless additional feeds
Feeds are a somewhat weak side over here as I generally never use the preconfigured feeds.
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No problem, Coredump. I too want to applaud you for all your and the other OZ developers hard work getting this going. I really feel bad about pointing all of this out.
Do you know when the next flashable is going to come available? I'm trying to figure out whether or not I should go back to the 3.5.4rc for the time being or whether I should go ahead and try to install apps on it as is.
Thanks,
--Storm
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Right, the feeds are not correctly setup. I'll probably drop the hentges feed (99% of it is a duplÃcate of the 3.5.4.1 feed anyway) and only keep a single "hentges-upgrade" feed, and maybe, just maybe a "machine" feed with the hentges ipk's which you won't find in the OZ feeds.
ipkg is slow enough as it is, no need to make it even worse with useless additional feeds
Feeds are a somewhat weak side over here as I generally never use the preconfigured feeds.
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No problem, Coredump. I too want to applaud you for all your and the other OZ developers hard work getting this going. I really feel bad about pointing all of this out.
Do you know when the next flashable is going to come available? I'm trying to figure out whether or not I should go back to the 3.5.4rc for the time being or whether I should go ahead and try to install apps on it as is.
Thanks,
--Storm
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Your reports are very welcome
New Collie images will be online tomorrow
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Your reports are very welcome
New Collie images will be online tomorrow
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RC5 for collie is [a href=\"http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/]online[/url].
Mini-Changelog:
- Upgraded altboot (no more stty error messages)
- Fixed 10-clean-gpe-settings.sh to stopp bugging you after selecting “noâ€
- Fixed mhbackup.sh to not ask to restore non-existing backups
- Adjusted GPE and Opie feed URLs.
- A 2nd getty will now be spawned on tty5 (Calendar + Left-Arrow / Right-Arrow toggles VTs on Collie)
This image includes altboot 1.0.7-rc2 which was not intended actually. It should work fine (it does here) but you'll notice a "Debug Shell" on tty2 which you can safely ignore
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this is for hentges obviously, i have standard opie (non-hentges) loop image installed,
can i use this new rom with my current altboot loop image, or do i have to also have the hentges fs tarball or hentges loop image ??
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does this new release fix the suspend problem ??
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this is for hentges obviously, i have standard opie (non-hentges) loop image installed,
can i use this new rom with my current altboot loop image, or do i have to also have the hentges fs tarball or hentges loop image ??
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does this new release fix the suspend problem ??
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A loop-image booted off SD / CF doesn't care which ROM is in the flash as long as it has altboot and uses th same kernel.
As for the suspend problem: It works fine here, can't reproduce...
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can you install cardfs to a loop image ??
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can you install cardfs to a loop image ??
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Yes you can
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and where do i get the initrd.bin file, (which version) as there isnt one in http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/) (that i could find)
as i did want 3.5.4.1 ...
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and where do i get the initrd.bin file, (which version) as there isnt one in http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/ (http://hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/collie/) (that i could find)
as i did want 3.5.4.1 ...
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Its inside the tarballs in the top-level collie directory...
hentges-gpe-image-collie_T1-RC5.tar.gz for gpe
hentges-opie-image-de-collie_T1-RC5.tar.gz for opie (german)
hentges-opie-image-collie_T1-RC5.tar.gz for opie (english)
Contents of the english opie tarball (all should be similar):
[storm@defiant collie]$ tar tzvf hentges-opie-image-collie_T1-RC5.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root 18011 2006-04-27 04:56:37 GPL.txt
-rw-r--r-- root/root 815 2006-04-27 04:56:37 README.txt
-rw-r--r-- root/root 45 2006-04-27 04:56:37 md5sum.txt
-rw-r--r-- root/root 14680064 2006-04-27 04:56:37 initrd.bin
Note that the answer to this question, the flash procedure and alternate method, as well as links to documentation on all of this have been discused several times earlier in this thread.
HTH,
--Storm
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As for the suspend problem: It works fine here, can't reproduce...
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Which zImage are you using? I used the 64-0 as I always do...Or is it safe to assume that it doesn't matter since they are all identical codebases? I am trying to figure out what could be causing many of us problems and others (including^H^H^H especially Coredump) not to experience it.
--Storm
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As for the suspend problem: It works fine here, can't reproduce...
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Which zImage are you using? I use the 64-0...Or is it safe to assume that it doesn't matter since they are all identical codebases? I am trying to figure out what could be causing many of us problems and others (including^H^H^H especially Coredump) not to experience it.
--Storm
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I'm using 64-0 yes
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thanks, i did think of something along those lines, but after checking what i thought was the file you just mentioned (though it was actually the tarball) i couldnt work it out...
im going to give it a whirl soon and get back as to whether i get the suspend problem as i was getting with non hentges opie 3.5.4
enjoy
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I'm using 64-0 yes
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Hmmm...Okay. Shouldn't be any hardware differences...
I've got the stuff on the CF card. I'll flash once I get to work and report back.
BTW, has anyone experienced the issue I mentioned last week about bash hanging after the first command, either remotely (usb networking) or locally (in the Konsole, which requires bash to run)? Basically I originally installed bash, then set root's shell to it. It would execute one command then never return the prompt...Control-C didn't work, all I could do was close the session. When I started having other problems, I reflashed. This time I did _not_ change root's shell, but I did install it (to make the konsole work). Sessions where I remote in via the usbnet work fine, but konsole sessions give me the same problem with the one-command-no-return-prompt.
Thanks for all your work, Coredump.
--Storm
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Just got round to installing this one and was looking forward to it but now I can't install packages or access interweb through usb.
Settings are
IP 192.168.0.100
subnet 255.255.255.0
First DNS 192.168.1.1
Second DNS 192.168.1.100
These settings have always worked for me in the past and reflashing to previous Hentges RC still works on these settings still works today.
No problems flashing but interweb so therefore packages won't connect.
I want to be current and stay with current RC so any suggestions/hints/rtfm's gratefully recieved.
have installed zImage collie 64/0 correctly renamed, initrd.bin and cardfs - error message from ipkg in Konsole is Host name look up failure.
Thanks as always for the help.
Chas
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Just installed RC5 - thanks as always CoreDump - we are not worthy.
Just in case anybody suffers the same problem I had with previous candidate and web access I solved it by removing the dns addresses from both the network settings on Z and the tcp/ip settings on my shared connection.
I don't know what changed between the the two candidates and I probably wouldn't understand if somebody ex[lained it to me but I am now happily downloading and installing applications.
I'm a happy kitty.
Thanks
Chas
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thanks, i did think of something along those lines, but after checking what i thought was the file you just mentioned (though it was actually the tarball) i couldnt work it out...
im going to give it a whirl soon and get back as to whether i get the suspend problem as i was getting with non hentges opie 3.5.4
enjoy
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I've updated the header text which should make things a bit clearer
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I'm using 64-0 yes
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I've got the stuff on the CF card. I'll flash once I get to work and report back.
BTW, has anyone experienced the issue I mentioned last week about bash hanging after the first command, either remotely (usb networking) or locally (in the Konsole, which requires bash to run)? Basically I originally installed bash, then set root's shell to it. It would execute one command then never return the prompt...Control-C didn't work, all I could do was close the session. When I started having other problems, I reflashed. This time I did _not_ change root's shell, but I did install it (to make the konsole work). Sessions where I remote in via the usbnet work fine, but konsole sessions give me the same problem with the one-command-no-return-prompt.
Thanks for all your work, Coredump.
--Storm
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I flashed with rc5, after checking the md5sums of all of the files on the CF card.
I'm still having the problem with suspend. I did a suspend right after flashing and it locked up.
I'm also still having problems with bash as listed above.
root@collie:~/pkglists# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10964 Feb 8 16:06 chaffee-pkglist-20050208
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9413 Jan 17 05:31 chaffee-pkglist-20050209-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9570 Jan 17 06:50 chaffee-pkglist-20050209-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9858 Jan 17 11:24 chaffee-pkglist-20060209-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16929 Jan 16 17:38 chaffee-pkglist-20060209-4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17755 Feb 10 04:31 chaffee-pkglist-20060209-5
root@collie:~/pkglists# bash
root@collie:~/pkglists# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10964 Feb 8 16:06 chaffee-pkglist-20050208
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9413 Jan 17 05:31 chaffee-pkglist-20050209-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9570 Jan 17 06:50 chaffee-pkglist-20050209-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9858 Jan 17 11:24 chaffee-pkglist-20060209-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16929 Jan 16 17:38 chaffee-pkglist-20060209-4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17755 Feb 10 04:31 chaffee-pkglist-20060209-5
It executed the command, then didn't give me a prompt back. The only way to get back to a prompt is to kill the process and log back in. I logged in in another window from my laptop, and it showed bash using 98+% of the CPU. It took a kill -9 to get rid of it.
Has anyone used bash under 3.5.4.1?
Thanks,
--Storm
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It executed the command, then didn't give me a prompt back. The only way to get back to a prompt is to kill the process and log back in. I logged in in another window from my laptop, and it showed bash using 98+% of the CPU. It took a kill -9 to get rid of it.
Has anyone used bash under 3.5.4.1?
Thanks,
--Storm
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I will have a look. I remember linking /bin/sh to /bin/bash a few month back on an e17 image to work around an entranced problem. Didn't notice anything too strange but this was on Akita.
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I will have a look. I remember linking /bin/sh to /bin/bash a few month back on an e17 image to work around an entranced problem. Didn't notice anything too strange but this was on Akita.
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As expected bash works fine on Akita.
I installed bash to / and launched it manually with /bin/bash, after that I even changed roots shell in /e/passwd to bash and re-logged. No problems so far. Tomorrow I'll have a look at collie.
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well ive got it on with loop image on sd and cardfs installed in that,
then you choose where you want to install cardfs, i chose "/" rather than cf or sd, as i ahd allready installed tarball loop image and mounted/booted it immediately after flashing .
one fix i had to make was add the directory "e" into "/usr/lib/ipkg/lists" for the e/collie server/feed list, othereise it would give an error during update mentioning it couldnt rename (move) the downloaded list to it's destination, (as the directory didnt exist)
so far the only lockup ive been able to get was while trying to issue the "logout" command from the "start menu" ... but even then while it was locked up, i could suspend/resume with the "cancel" "hard-key", though in the end had to hard-reset-switch to break the lock...
over all im muchly impressed by the new release, you even get AQPkg by default, and it genrally seems faster and more stable...
congratulations
-counted my chickens too quick just got full-lock while holding cancel to suspend, leaving no choice but to hard-switch-reset after waiting to no avail...
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For the time beeing you should suspend via opies or GPEs menu, not the Cancel button.
Also I've tested bash on Colle, and yes it is broken and hangs after the first command.
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For the time beeing you should suspend via opies or GPEs menu, not the Cancel button.
Also I've tested bash on Colle, and yes it is broken and hangs after the first command.
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Great. I was beginning to think that I was the only one to whom this was happening. I'm not going to ask if you have a date of repair, Coredump, I'm just glad I'm not imagining the problem.
--Storm
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Perhaps I am missing something here (and I am not, uhem!, inexperienced) but there does seem to be a fundamental conflict between loading both an altboot onto sd (filesystem NOT loop mount) and the cardfs apps...I have tried every possible ordering and each seems to want to destroy the files of the other (saying 'no' on the delete question just ends up as a noop w/ no install)...
And on at least half my installs today I have had to do the altboot install from the tarball, boot into the original flash install and then cd into the /media/card/etc/rc5.d directory and blow away S20checksd to get the thing to even boot into a gpe environment on a sd boot...checking the boot filesystem does seem to cause some problems (either trying to kill a process that does not exist or shell errors on input into some of the test conditions in /etc/init.d/rc)
While I am sure that I can construct a nice gpe environment all by myself having the package of apps in the cardfs package as a headstart is rather nice...
Suggestions????
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Perhaps I am missing something here (and I am not, uhem!, inexperienced) but there does seem to be a fundamental conflict between loading both an altboot onto sd (filesystem NOT loop mount) and the cardfs apps...I have tried every possible ordering and each seems to want to destroy the files of the other (saying 'no' on the delete question just ends up as a noop w/ no install)...
Oops!
The cardfs installer *should* offer "/" as destination (which would be the rootfs on SD in your case).
And on at least half my installs today I have had to do the altboot install from the tarball, boot into the original flash install and then cd into the /media/card/etc/rc5.d directory and blow away S20checksd to get the thing to even boot into a gpe environment on a sd boot...checking the boot filesystem does seem to cause some problems (either trying to kill a process that does not exist or shell errors on input into some of the test conditions in /etc/init.d/rc)
While I am sure that I can construct a nice gpe environment all by myself having the package of apps in the cardfs package as a headstart is rather nice...
Suggestions????
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I'm afraid but testing root-on-SD is a little bit difficult for me currently. I do know that root-on-NFS / CF works just fine with gpe and opie.
I'll see what I can do.
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Thanx Coredump -- my goof on first part, guess my brain at 2am was not thinking that root had already pivoted so / should be the install target for cardfs and NOT /media/card....
Did just have to do part 2 again though -- boot and select 8, install the tarball as filesystem, boot off the #3 / SD option and fail on rc script errors, reboot (selection 1) on flash install, cd to /media/card/etc/rc5.d to blow away S20checksd, reboot again on #3 for SD card, and then finally install the cardfs apps (correctly into / this time)...
Now I can at least move on to customization and more apps installs...
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Yes, I was a wimp. I went back to Hentges 3.5.4rc until some of the issues are fixed. I needed full functionality of the Z in the meantime.
I was wondering if I could include some of the 3.5.4.1 feeds and would they work on 3.5.4rc?
Thanks,
--Storm
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Yes, I was a wimp. I went back to Hentges 3.5.4rc until some of the issues are fixed. I needed full functionality of the Z in the meantime.
I was wondering if I could include some of the 3.5.4.1 feeds and would they work on 3.5.4rc?
Thanks,
--Storm
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Yes they should work just fine. And they should be configured in the image alread.
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Yes they should work just fine. And they should be configured in the image alread.
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They are not going on the 3.5.4rc. I was planning on adding them to the feed list instead of replacing the original ones. (As long as I stay away from bash.)
Just point them at the 3.5.4.1 feeds on ewi?