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Title: more info on gpe?
Post by: VeeDubb on October 01, 2004, 09:45:40 am

I was wondering if there is a good faq anywhere about the gpe rom for OZ.  I have lot's  of questions that seem generic to me, but I can't find them in the forum.

In case someone is board, and can't think of an faw, here's my biggest problems.

i can't seemt o mount my CF or SD cards, but in my file structure /mnt/card and /mnt/sd have diretories that do not appear  to be on the cards.  After many attempts those directories now apear on my CF card, empty, but other things that are on the CF do not show up.  

Without the CF working, I have no way of getting ipks to my zaurus right now.

The package manager in the gpe version seems to be missing some realy critical features.  Like defining locations to search for ipk's that can be installed.  I found that through the file menu I can browse to a specific ipk for instalation, but that is a pain and I caan't realy test it without the CF anyway.

I want to us this rom because it looks absolutely fntastic, and what does work is ultra smooth,  it just seems a litle broken for the moment.  I can't wait for the first stable release.

Title: more info on gpe?
Post by: saakmotu on October 01, 2004, 09:49:56 am

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Without the CF working, I have no way of getting ipks to my zaurus right now.

do you not have a cradle and usb networking setup?
it's not that hard (plenty of howtos in a google search) and worked for me to a debian desktop. I would guess that it's not much harder to windows.

Title: more info on gpe?
Post by: VeeDubb on October 01, 2004, 09:59:03 am

I have the cradle, but it's not set up yet, however, with a 64-0 memory set up, i have nowhere on the Zaurus to put packages that i transfer that way, and my card reader is 20 times faster than the cradle.  I'll never use a cradle for anything larger than syncing if I can avoid it.

but, like I said, it wouldn't help anyway.  I'd have to reflash with a different zImage.

Title: more info on gpe?
Post by: lardman on October 01, 2004, 10:07:15 am

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i can't seemt o mount my CF or SD cards, but in my file structure /mnt/card and /mnt/sd have diretories that do not appear to be on the cards. After many attempts those directories now apear on my CF card, empty, but other things that are on the CF do not show up.

What format are the CF and SD cards? Try using the -t fdisk flag to specify the partition format.

Do these strange directories include /usr this happens if the card hasn't been mounted.

I've got it working fine (bar the fact that I must use -t to mount my ext2 CF card) on my 5500.


Si

Title: more info on gpe?
Post by: VeeDubb on October 02, 2004, 02:34:49 am

I tried the -t option in mount, but I must be doing it wrong.  Can you tell me EXACTLY what commands to enter to mount my SD card to the default directory (I believe its /mnt/card) and my CF card to it's default directory?

The Sd is formated ext2 and the Cf is formated vfat.pierced


Thanks.  if I can get that working, then I'm on my way.

Title: more info on gpe?
Post by: lardman on October 02, 2004, 06:32:53 am

For the sd:

(make sure you're root)

# mount -t ext2 /dev/mmcda1 /mnt/card

I don't know about the CF, I've never heard of the format, but it would be something like:

# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/cf


Si

Title: more info on gpe?
Post by: VeeDubb on October 02, 2004, 10:57:10 pm

vfat is fat32

pierced was a typo, don't know how it got there....