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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: ncarvalho on September 03, 2004, 07:46:23 pm

Title: Where to install packages??
Post by: ncarvalho on September 03, 2004, 07:46:23 pm

Hy....

I'm "tunning up" my sl-5500 with extra software.
When I'm trying to install a package, it asks me if i want to install in ROM, SD or CF??

Since i have a huge (128 MB) SD card, i prefer to install there.

But everytime i tried, i only can install in ROM... because in SD or CF it gives me an error.

Is this normal??
Probably not - if so it didn't ask where i would like to install, right??

What can be the problem??


Thanks
NCarvalho

Title: Where to install packages??
Post by: doseas on September 07, 2004, 06:01:25 pm

I've found that only 50% or so of the IPKs I've tried will install to SD card using the GUI installer.  Half of the ones that fail with the GUI will install OK to SD card if I do the install from the command line.  That leaves about 25% of the apps that I use that will only install to RAM.  YMMV :-)

BTW, you can only install most apps to a card that is formatted EXT3 -- they will not install to FAT-formatted cards, since most apps require symbolic linking, which is not supported by the FAT file system.  Most CF cards come from the manufacturer pre-formatted with the FAT system.

Title: Where to install packages??
Post by: tumnus on September 08, 2004, 03:01:55 am

If you're using the Sharp ROM v3.1x on your 5500, it doesn't matter what format your SD/CF card is because the Sharp installer relocates the symbolic links to internal storage, while keeping all the other files on SD/CF.

If an ipk fails to install to SD/CF, it is usually because it is installing files to directories outside of the standard directories under /opt/QtPalmtop (or /opt/Qtopia). You can look inside an ipk to see where the files are going. The outer shell is a gzipped tar file and inside that is another gzipped tar file called data.tar.gz, which contains all the files.

Title: Where to install packages??
Post by: ncarvalho on September 08, 2004, 06:04:20 pm

Thanks for both replies.

when start installing ipk's in Zaurus, i've allways tried to install in SD card. But I allways get an error, so i give up and start allways installing on ROM, on first try.

Since you said that some packages may be installed in SD i'll (re)start tryng that.
Via GUI or Terminal

NCarvalho