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Title: help installing an ipk on openzaurus
Post by: negrita on July 28, 2004, 09:35:01 pm

Greetings,

I've installed oz 3.3.5 on a 5500

I'd like to install konqueror or perhaps opera. I've downloaded the konkeror.ipk from the openzaurus feed and copied it to both a CF and a SD card. The CF card is format FAT from the initial install the SD card is now ext2.  They both have the ipk   'trying what i could'

However, when using the file manager I don't see the ipk on either card nor can I find a HowTo on the OpenZaurus site.

Any help is appreciated. I looked searched through the forums and I'm obviously making a newbie mistake with the Z and OpenZaurus

Thanks

Title: help installing an ipk on openzaurus
Post by: lardman on July 29, 2004, 04:34:07 am

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They both have the ipk 'trying what i could'

Hmm, I don't understand what you mean here.

The card format doesn't matter for hosting the files (though it does if you want to install stuff to them - use the ext2 card)

Open the terminal.

Type 'mount', make sure that /dev/hda1 appears (CF card) or /dev/mmcda1 (SD card).

If they are not mounted try 'mount /mnt/cf' or 'mount /mnt/card'

Then do 'cd /mnt/cf' (for CF card) or 'cd /mnt/card' (for SD), then 'ls'.

Assuming you copied it across okay it should appear there.


Si

Title: help installing an ipk on openzaurus
Post by: negrita on July 29, 2004, 07:19:14 pm

lardman

Thank you for responding.

When I said:  They both have the ipk 'trying what i could

I meant that I copied the konqueror ipk to 'both' my  CF and  SD cards


[Type 'mount', make sure that /dev/hda1 appears (CF card) or /dev/mmcda1 (SD card)]

does not show either: /dev/hda1  or /dev/mmcda1

[f they are not mounted try 'mount /mnt/cf' or 'mount /mnt/card']

[mount /mnt/cf]

/dev/hda1 invalid argument
mount: you must specify the file system type

if I try [mount -t VFAT /mnt/cf]

I get more error msgs

[mount /mnt/card]
/dev/mmcda1: invalid argument


I'm obviously doing something wrong since I can mount and read/write from the cards using my Linux box regardless of the filesystem type



NOTES:
When I insert the CF card  I only get the new card ATA / IDE msg after a reboot
When I insert the SD card I NEVER get a msg
At times I have to reboot in order to get my socket7 wireless card to be recognized

I can read/write from both CF and SD cards using my linux 'Gentoo' desktop


Thank You very much I really want to get this working

Title: help installing an ipk on openzaurus
Post by: lardman on July 30, 2004, 05:29:02 am

I'd be tempted to use fdisk to look at the partition tables to see what the filesystem type is - as this is what mount uses when it tries to mount the card as 'auto' (terminology correct I hope ;-))


Si