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Title: What To Do After Installation
Post by: wgb on May 26, 2008, 03:32:58 am

Hi,
I installed Angström successfully and then ...

... on my desktop is no application, not even a webbrowser ...
... ok, after some hours I found out that i have to update the package-list in the Package-Tool and then ...
... i can install the gpe-mini-browser and it works ...
... most of the times ...
... but if I want to install any other program ...
... I have no ram left ...

=> Is that the normal situation .Not the long time for finding out how to install any application, but that there is no place left in memory.

Greetings
Wolf

Title: What To Do After Installation
Post by: hafu on May 26, 2008, 10:05:41 am

Quote from: wgb

I installed Angström successfully and then ...

What image (exactly the name) did you install? Where from?

Greetings
hafu

Title: What To Do After Installation
Post by: wgb on May 26, 2008, 05:21:51 pm

Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-r14-simpad.rootfs.jffs2
from http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/relea.../images/simpad/ (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/releases/2007.12/images/simpad/)

After I installed the gpe-minibrowser I had about 2 or 3 MB free space on the root partition.
Do I have to by a cf-card to use Angström, or are the 64mb enougth for a Browser, Pim etc (a set of tools like in win-ce)

Greetings
Wolf

Title: What To Do After Installation
Post by: hafu on May 28, 2008, 05:32:36 pm

Quote from: wgb

Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-r14-simpad.rootfs.jffs2
from http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/relea.../images/simpad/ (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/releases/2007.12/images/simpad/)
After I installed the gpe-minibrowser I had about 2 or 3 MB free space on the root partition.

That seems to be ok. Without anything installed, I have ~5.4 MB free.
But I'm now wondering as well, because my used space is shown as 19 MB used. Where the missing 8 MB??? I slowly remember I read someting about another 8 MB partition that is reserved for something but can be modified to be used as part of the root partition.
Can you investigate here?

Quote from: wgb

Do I have to by a cf-card to use Angström, or are the 64mb enougth for a Browser, Pim etc (a set of tools like in win-ce)

You have 64 MB FLASH?  
Solve the lost 8 MB problem and you have 10+ MB left for your apps. If you still need more, better go for a cf.

-hafu

Title: What To Do After Installation
Post by: mr_nice on May 28, 2008, 06:00:46 pm

hi,
we are planning to release a new bootloader which has only one big partition. until it will be released you can try out this howto [1]. You need to reflash your device for it.

A good place to look for angstrom based questions is also the angstrom faq/manual [2]

regrads
mr nice

1 http://opensimpad.org/index.php/Get_rid_of..._home_partition (http://opensimpad.org/index.php/Get_rid_of_your_home_partition)
2 http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/AngstromManual (http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/AngstromManual)

Title: What To Do After Installation
Post by: wgb on May 29, 2008, 03:01:39 pm

Thanks for the Answers.

@hafu: sorry, No I have 32 MB flash

Ok, I try to go through the HowTo.

Greetings
Wolf

Title: What To Do After Installation
Post by: hafu on June 03, 2008, 03:32:52 pm

Thanks for the direct link to the home-partition howto. I applied it and now (after a fresh full x11 r15 image) I've 13MB+ free disk! Excellent!

-hafu