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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / [solved] Bypass 'new Storage Media Detected' Scrn.

« on: July 25, 2006, 05:49:34 pm »

thanks chrisl. hopefully there's a solution for non usb networked Zs

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / [solved] Bypass 'new Storage Media Detected' Scrn.

« on: July 24, 2006, 03:40:11 pm »

I've come across this problem too - trying to setup boot from SD using a hentges tar.gz file. I've installed the filesystem to SD, and then when it tries to boot off the SD card, the "new storeage media detected" screen appears. I've tried a lot of different combinations of key presses, and nothing gets rid of it. I've also tried to boot into the console, kill SD related processes, and then run opie but that doesn't work either. I can't get USB networking to run, so can't ssh over USB to use the instructions above. I have got a wireless card (prism based), and have installed the necessary ipks from the command line to run it, but it doesn't start when I boot to console. Also, ifup wlan0 fails.

Does anyone have any other suggestions as to how to bypass this screen?

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Software / Mail And Stuff

« on: July 12, 2006, 02:42:15 pm »

whats your fetchmailrc look like?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=134827\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Fetchmailrc looks like this


poll my.mail.server
protocol pop3
user me@my.domain
password myPassword
is root
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F"
keep

I stuffed my zaurus installation last night, so I'm going to have to reflash - will see how it all runs after that. I also tried to install offlineImap, but it wouldn't work, so I think I'll stick with the fetchmail setup for the time being.

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Software / Mail And Stuff

« on: July 10, 2006, 06:18:31 pm »

Is there any chance this setup will work on an SL-5500 running OZ3.5.4?
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well, I can answer my own question. I've got all of this running on my SL-5500, the only problem now is that when I check for new mail while online, fetchmail always downloads all mail, even mail that has already been downloaded.

I followed a lot of the info in this

[a href=\"http://www.daniel-hertrich.de/zaurus/zps/]http://www.daniel-hertrich.de/zaurus/zps/[/url]

and this

http://www.thegrinder.ws/main/node/186

and am using mutt.

Mutt is configured so that when I press Shift-G it runs muttonline.sh, which contains

#!/bin/bash

echo Sending mail...
/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/msmtp-runqueue.sh

echo Fetching new mail...
/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/fetchmail -km '/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/procmail -d %T'

Any ideas why fetchmail is always downloading all mail?

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Software / Mail And Stuff

« on: July 07, 2006, 06:50:27 am »

Is there any chance this setup will work on an SL-5500 running OZ3.5.4?

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Software / Ical Formatted Calendars

« on: July 07, 2006, 04:35:37 am »

Hi,
I've got a 5500 using the OZ 3.5.4 ROM.
Is there any calendar program that will read in an *.ics file?
I have my family calendar which is shared via webdav, and would like to get that same calendar into the Z... even if it's read only, I'll take it :-)
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I installed Kopi yesterday and it appears to be able to import and export .ics files (i haven't tried it though).

Let me know how you get on, as I'd like to be able to "sync" (either automatically or manually) with my phpiCalendar on my webspace.

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Software / What is the best Zaurus E-mail program?

« on: July 07, 2006, 04:25:16 am »

Which model and ROM are you running?  The answer will depend on that.

I have an SL-5500 running OZ3.5.4 with opie. So i assume the "default mail" i referred to is opiemail...

Now, I don't know much about IMAP but I do know that the only way I can be sure of not downloading the same IMAP email again with tkcMail is to do my erasing while online.  I'm afraid this may be a standard feature of IMAP.  Does anyone know?

I use imap for all of my mail on my laptop, and anything that gets deleted while offline doesn't reappear when I'm online, and it does get deleted from the online version of my mail.

Lots of people like Mutt and Pine and I'd suggest you check them out.  They are more work to install, but at least you can configure them to your own liking.

hmmm... I used to use pine at Uni (a looong time ago) - maybe I'll have a look at that. I've found that I can ssh from konsole to my webhost and run pine through the konsole, but it's not much use for writing emails offline.

I've had the zaurus for 4 days now, and am very impressed, it's just a bit disappointing that there aren't many full featured mail apps. I'll give pine or mutt a go next week and see how they go. Any pointers to a howto to configure pine/mutt - especially for offline use?

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5x00 General discussions / Cardfs Or Altboot? What?

« on: July 06, 2006, 07:14:47 am »

Another (slightly) related question. I'm, thinking of repartitioning my SD card to give me some FAT space. Is this as simple as backing up everything on the card, repartitioning and formatting, and then copying everything back, or is there more to it?

Nope, symlinks do not work with FAT so cardfs doesn't work either.

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear - i'd hope to partition the card into one (or more) ext2 partition, and a bit of FAT space, and tehn copy the cardfs stuff back to an ext2 partition. Would that work? Thanks for your reply. I'll have a closer look at the altboot errors and post back.

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Software / What is the best Zaurus E-mail program?

« on: July 06, 2006, 05:46:24 am »

Is it possible using the default mail program to set folders to be synced for offline use? I had the default up and running using IMAP with my mail server, and all of my email headers would appear, but when I exited email and went back in it had all disappeared, and then had to be downloaded again. It would be great to be able to set it up to sync selected folders for offline use.

If the default app is unable to do this, are there any others that provide good integration with an IMAP server? including offline use?

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5x00 General discussions / Cardfs Or Altboot? What?

« on: July 06, 2006, 05:40:04 am »

I was asking the same questions a couple of days ago, and because of problems with my SD card (1GB sandisk), the decision was made for me. If I ever tried to use AltBoot and boot off the SD, it would give errors with the SD card (don't have the exact text here now, but i think it was saying problems trying to mount it), and then just drop to the console. However there don't appear to be problems with the SD card, as I'm currently running using CardFS. I'm not sure whether the problems that were reported were with the card itself, or with the loop file, but I wasn't sure how to find out, and now that I'm running everything fine with cardFS, I'm not sure I want to try (at least not for a bit). I had a couple of altboot images on the card, and if I tried to use the SD card, it wouldn't even present me with the list of loop files to choose from, it would just give card errors. When I copied the files to a CF card it would present the list to choose from, but when I chose one I got the same errors.

While I now have a better understanding of the difference between altboot and cardFS, I still have a couple of questions.

Are you saying that when altboot is used, the entire OS and packages etc are all run directly from the SD card, but when cardFS is used the OS is running from flash, but the packages are installed and run from the card?

If this is the case, what is the overall difference? From the point of view of performance, stability and ease of upgrade, which is more appropriate to use? I realise different people may have different opinions on this, but that's what I'm curious about - opinions. On the various websites, I could find quite a lot of info about how altboot works, and how cardFS works, but no reasons as to why you'd use one over the other.

Another (slightly) related question. I'm, thinking of repartitioning my SD card to give me some FAT space. Is this as simple as backing up everything on the card, repartitioning and formatting, and then copying everything back, or is there more to it?

Sorry if these are some noob questions, but I just got the Zaurus off e-bay 3 days ago. am loving it now - especially since I got Kopi/Kapi running with pi-sync to my desktop, and my wireless seems to work flawlessly (after installing the prism packages)... now just to get IrDA and bluetooth working with my phone.