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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: lableu on July 04, 2004, 05:40:39 pm

Title: sharprom with opie
Post by: lableu on July 04, 2004, 05:40:39 pm

Would it be possible to replace Qtopia with Opie. If so, how can I go about doing this.   Thanks in advance for the help.

Title: sharprom with opie
Post by: Teletubbie on July 04, 2004, 07:06:37 pm

Hi,
this could work, but I am not sure about the 5600.
http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/sharprom/ (http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/sharprom/)
Cheers,
Sam actually posting with the 5500

Title: sharprom with opie
Post by: lableu on July 04, 2004, 07:33:41 pm

That just installs Opie and it's apps, but the Zaurus still runs with Qtopia instead of Opie. I would like to completely uninstall Qtopia and use Opie. If that's not possible I would like to know how I could configure the Zaurus to start Opie instead of Qtopia.

Title: sharprom with opie
Post by: Teletubbie on July 04, 2004, 07:57:49 pm

Lets test a bit before going to the runlevels.
Please shutdown qtopia.
Then you should have a console.
Now type:
/etc/init.d/opie start
Cheers,
Sam

Title: sharprom with opie
Post by: lableu on July 04, 2004, 09:16:33 pm

That doesn't seem to work... There is no /etc/init.d directory ...

Title: sharprom with opie
Post by: Stubear on July 04, 2004, 11:22:02 pm

Currently the only way to replace Qtopia with Opie is to flash OpenZaurus (this includes Opie).

It will be much faster than trying to replace all the Qtopia files and libraries by hand.

Stu

Title: sharprom with opie
Post by: lableu on July 04, 2004, 11:23:04 pm

I was able to find init.d it was in:

/etc/rc.d/

I've come accross another problem, there is not opie in init.d, even though I have installed all the opie packages from the sharprom feed. Any clue?

Title: sharprom with opie
Post by: lableu on July 04, 2004, 11:24:47 pm

The problem with OZ is that it's not very stable for the 5600, I've already tried it, and it's far from being usable for day to day use.