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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: Onetrack on December 08, 2004, 01:15:43 am
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Well..
I -very carefully- flashed my z 5500 to oz 3.5.2 30/30 this morning around 10am.
Here it is 12 hours later and I havn't been able to install anything. - nothing, and I'm not trying to install anything exotic, i'm following the docs on these forums just to get konquerer running.
Nada.. zip-zero-nilch. I do have a 512 meg lexar sd card in /mnt/card which is ext2 fs.
Been reading the forums all day long - there are just way too many dependancies with this flavor of linux. The package manager is near useless as it won't resolve dependancies and the Z hangs way too much.. I've had to cold start it several times today. Including taking out the battery - it all happens when trying to use the package manager files sort of try to install to SD but then the Z hangs and thats it. - sometimes I can restart opie, most times I have to shut the Z down completely.
Since these units are almost nearly identicle why isn't there a binaries repository ?
Please don't say rtfm, i'm a unix geek and a solaris/linux guy, this Z is about 2 steps from becoming chucked off my deck. This is way too much work to get a PDA functional.
Now OZ 3.5.2 itself is very nice, it recognized my Netgear MA701NA wireless card, its on the network, i can ping out from the Z and have been futzing around with command line ipk but I can't make this thing install.
I almost had frodo installed, but it crashed on a dependancy and the file won't execute.
Dead Z? Bad flash? OZ just way too experimental? - I appreciate all the work the OZ team has put into this replacement rom, their work is fantastic. but the roms a little empty.
Cheers all.. Onetrack
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This might be useless, but try a reflash off freshly downloaded zimage and initrd.
Dl and install the "service pack" from the feed.
Best I got. might do the trick for you.
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Hi, I think it's truly better way to install 'Hentges' flavor. Try Hentges here (http://www.hentges.net/tmp/do_not_use/)
And the instructions are below here (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9084)
Bye bye.
Pedro
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Thanks for the replies guys - Pedro I installed Hentges rom last night, and besides 2 little bugs I have. I think it almost should be the official rom
My Z is a lot happier now.
so only 2 little wierd quirks - dealing with wireless networking on my netgear ma701na, but i'll figure it out.
With Hentges rom and the SD install, I'm way ahead of where i was yesterday.
cheers,
One