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Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: drtyldesley on November 27, 2004, 10:13:51 am

Hello and greetings fellow Zaurus owners.

I have just installed Open Zaurus & it seems to boot fine. What now????

I have logged in as root & issued a few basic Linux commands and everything seems fine. But I do not know how I can start a desktop/Xserver or even if I have this software installed.

Question: Do I need to install a window manager and X server(or alternative), or is it already installed I just need to issue some commands?

TIA

DrTyldesley

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: drtyldesley on November 27, 2004, 10:56:30 am

Been doing more searching, Should OPE not boot automagicly?

Think Ill try flashing again

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: MonkeyMuffins on November 27, 2004, 11:07:34 am

Are you running OPIE or GPE?

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: drtyldesley on November 27, 2004, 11:24:25 am

Not sure what Im running at the moment. It boots to a root prompt. The kernel is collie

Thanks

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: MonkeyMuffins on November 27, 2004, 11:28:18 am

Which initrd file did you download?  There is gpe, opie and bootstrap.  They are the files that ens in .jffs2

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: drtyldesley on November 27, 2004, 11:29:55 am

Just tried a reflash... same sort of results. The first time I booted up it just hung on the encryption key generation?
still no GUI?

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: MonkeyMuffins on November 27, 2004, 11:33:13 am

You want to make sure that you are not using the bootstrap.jffs2.  Opie and GPE are the ones with the gui.

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: drtyldesley on November 27, 2004, 11:39:28 am

Im just trying using the Opie image

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: MonkeyMuffins on November 27, 2004, 11:41:00 am

Did you rename the file to initrd.bin?

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: drtyldesley on November 27, 2004, 12:12:30 pm

Just trying from scratch again. ill let you know what happens.
Thanks MonkeyMuffens for your help

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: drtyldesley on November 27, 2004, 12:33:43 pm

Its a beautiful thing....

Opie 1.2 now running...very slick.


Now I will look at the software to load.

Thanks again MonkeyM

See you around

ps think I must have loaded a bootstrap for terminal only... perhaps

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: MonkeyMuffins on November 27, 2004, 12:41:10 pm

I'm glad to hwer that it worked.

Title: Help For A Zaurus Newbie
Post by: jaspercize on December 08, 2004, 08:42:02 am

Hello,
 We are talking about OZ on a Z6K correct? Can any one tell me the strengths, weakness etc for switching? Any problems with SW/HW? Is there a performance difference?
TIA

Jasper