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Title: C3k & 8gb Card (what Size To Format?)
Post by: lareya on May 17, 2006, 12:00:51 am: Okay,
after a long hiatus, I am back to trying to get my little z up and running. I have a 8gb CF card that I will replace the 4gb md card. The card is hosed, and I don't have a back up. So what 3 partitions should I put the 8gb card into? what sizes of partitions, and should I have one vfat for my windows xp machine to read? I need some recommendations here. Do I even need that for openzaurus? I have only used cacko in the past, but for my zc3k, I am thinking that openzaurus (spitz, I think), will be more stable because it just uses the harddrive to install on. Thanks, any advice would be great!

Lareya
Title: C3k & 8gb Card (what Size To Format?)
Post by: Cresho on May 17, 2006, 12:23:59 am: Quote
Okay,
after a long hiatus, I am back to trying to get my little z up and running. I have a 8gb CF card that I will replace the 4gb md card. The card is hosed, and I don't have a back up. So what 3 partitions should I put the 8gb card into? what sizes of partitions, and should I have one vfat for my windows xp machine to read? I need some recommendations here. Do I even need that for openzaurus? I have only used cacko in the past, but for my zc3k, I am thinking that openzaurus (spitz, I think), will be more stable because it just uses the harddrive to install on. Thanks, any advice would be great!

Lareya
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boy, you are in for it.

I know how to do it myself but I wonder how you will fair, i spent 8 hours unbricking my c3200. but ill get you started.

here is one usefull topic
[a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18636]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18636[/url]

here are the image downloads
http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-...iginal-backups/ (http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/service-menus/original-backups/)

and a few notes....

fdisk utilities to /dev/hdd3

df for finding out what partitions and disks are available

su for super user.

one last thing. you need to go into terminal mode with d+b. you can find out more in the trisoft pdf file. c3000qse.pdf
http://www.trisoft.de/pdf/c3000qse.pdf (http://www.trisoft.de/pdf/c3000qse.pdf)

i live in southern california, maybee i can be of some assistance.
Title: C3k & 8gb Card (what Size To Format?)
Post by: wylbur on May 17, 2006, 02:31:31 am: I'm no expert, but I have managed to wipe my NAND, replace it with d+b to terminal, totally repartition the microdrive repeatedly, and then replace it with a CF card. And now it works!

Anyway, the OZ developers could tell you more, but AFAICT, all OZ needs is about 150 megs of ext2 in /dev/hda1, and it's then good to go. I have no idea where it puts the "altboot" bootloader, but it's got to be in there somewhere.

My partitions are as follows:

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root@spitz:~/# mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,data=ordered) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw) ramfs on /dev type ramfs (rw) ramfs on /dev/.static/dev type ramfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,data=ordered) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/mtdblock2 on /mnt/nand2 type ext2 (rw,nogrpid) /dev/mtdblock3 on /mnt/nand3 type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
and /dev/hda2 is about 130 megs of swap. I hacked /etc/fstab to set this stuff up at boot, and it's working pretty well. hth -- wylbur.

ps. I live in Palo Alto. If you're close, we could hack a bit.
Title: C3k & 8gb Card (what Size To Format?)
Post by: Da_Blitz on May 18, 2006, 07:19:00 am: altboot is on the first partiion and is loaded as "init" which then calls exec init.real to do a normall boot

the OZ guys dont say much because they expect a standard layout however you can tell how much you need as a minimum for / by the size of the image you flash

i have 3 partions / /home and swap and it works well
Title: C3k & 8gb Card (what Size To Format?)
Post by: lareya on May 18, 2006, 12:17:53 pm: Okay,
good stuff. I think I will go for it this wknd! I am going for the OpenZaurus this time.
Thanks for all your input. I will probably have tons of questions later

Lareya
Title: C3k & 8gb Card (what Size To Format?)
Post by: zedkatuf2 on June 24, 2006, 12:42:10 pm: Quote
Okay,
good stuff. I think I will go for it this wknd! I am going for the OpenZaurus this time.
Thanks for all your input. I will probably have tons of questions later

Lareya
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Would 1gb for / be to big if I'm installing both gpe & opie on a 3200?