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Title: Help A Noob With Oz Please.
Post by: digichris420 on December 06, 2004, 08:35:06 pm

Hello, I have recently installed OZ 3.5.2 on my SL-5600, and I love it.  Everything seems to be working alot smoother than 3.5.1.  I've had a zaurus for a while now, i've been using Zynergy (very nice rom too) and I'm not that good with Linux.  Anyways, with OZ, it seems that it split up all the ram (and rom?) to different partitons by default.  I have the following setup:

Internal Storage /dev/root: 22528kB (8680kB free)
Internal Storage /dev/mtdblock3: 35840kB (30132kB free)
Internal Membory : 15004kB (14956 free)
SD Card : 248960kB (alot of free space)

I am having trouble figuring out where to install ipk's to.  When I install by default (I beleive it installs to the " / " directory) That takes up space really fast, and I dont think that is the right spot, even though the program works fine.  However, when I install to /dev/mtdblock3, the programs do not show up anywhere.  This is probably something minor that I am missing, but I could not find any answers in any FAQ's or forums.  I just need to know how to install programs correctly to the internal storage,  or the SD card, just wherever I can put a bunch of programs.  Thanks for the help.

P.S. did the 3.5.2 ver of OZ fix the clock reset issue?
P.S.S does OZ include the cache errata workaround for the PXA-250 processor?

Title: Help A Noob With Oz Please.
Post by: Pyrates on December 07, 2004, 03:13:15 am

As for the packages, I heard the linking doesn't work well when you use the graphical package manager. Open a terminal, and type "ipk-link mount /mnt/ram", which I suppose is you /dev/mtdblock3. For programms installed on SD, that'd be "ipk-link mount /mnt/card" (that's just a guess, but an educated one ).

If you keep on having trouble, start installing stuff from the commandline. It's just typing "ipkg install -d ram package.ipkg" to install package.ipkg to the ram. Or "ipkg install -d ram packagename" if you set up the feeds.... I'm not sure if the graphical package manager is 100% fixed in 3.5.2.

Can't help you with the other two, sorry.

Cheers
Philipp

Title: Help A Noob With Oz Please.
Post by: Hrw on December 07, 2004, 03:16:17 am

on 5600 /dev/mtdblock3 is /home (second 32MiB block of flash)

Title: Help A Noob With Oz Please.
Post by: lardman on December 07, 2004, 07:11:34 am

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P.S.S does OZ include the cache errata workaround for the PXA-250 processor?

I think so, but may be wrong (I'm not sure how you could check).


Si

Title: Help A Noob With Oz Please.
Post by: Mickeyl on December 07, 2004, 09:29:18 am

Yes, we enable the workaround. Like said in another post, we will ship two poodle kernels for future OZ releases. We won't disable the workaround for c700.

Title: Help A Noob With Oz Please.
Post by: digichris420 on December 07, 2004, 09:50:35 pm

Hey thanks for the clarification guys, keep up the awsome work on OZ, all your time/effort is greatly appriciated.  I have formatted my SD card with ext2fs, as I have read something about doing that to allow symlinks to work properly when installing a program to SD.  Now, time to test it all out. Im so noob'd up when it comes to this linux stuff.