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General Discussion / help w/ 5600 flash

« on: March 11, 2004, 07:28:30 pm »

hi, just got a sl 5600, but whenever i try to flash something it doesnt work, it\'ll hang on the sharp please wait approx 2min screen. I am able to flash back to the original 1.32 rom, and the special kernel, however no other initrd.bin works w/ it. I tried to put the special kernel and the tkc rom for 5600 on a CF card, but it would not boot. anything i did wrong? ive also tried various kernel, initrd.bin combos.... someone please help.. 5500 was so much easier :-(

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 23, 2004, 10:24:38 pm »

ah, hmm ya ive tried that, but i tend to not trust it very much as the backup is usually ~150KB and i know ive put more stuff in there, right now w/ the script that backs up the /home directory my backups are ~25MB uncompressed, and ~4MB compressed, 25MB is because i have a 16MB swapfile (i install rest of apps to a SD card, but cant put /home on SD because my simpletech card screws up during resume, and i have no idea how to fix), theres probably quite a bit of stuff i didnt need to backup, but this way just about everything i can change is backed up and after i flash i can get all my settings and applications back in <5mins, alot faster than installing all the apps again and changing things to how i like it.

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 23, 2004, 12:36:25 am »

omg, it worked!!!!!!!! thank u!!!! wow i hate that stupid text editor now. is there anyway to start by scratch?

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 22, 2004, 08:08:10 pm »

hmm so weird... especially when it works if i just copy and paste script in manually...

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 22, 2004, 07:56:29 pm »

hmm, nop. im running tkc.rom2.0alpha3 , is there a package i need to run shell scripts?

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 22, 2004, 07:33:17 pm »

hmm, still not working for me :-( what do i have to do to run the script? in terminal i can just put backup.sh if thats the filename right? does the script have to be located anywhere specifically? i had it in /mnt/cf and /home/QtPalmtop/bin and tried to run from both, neither did anything

heres a screenshot if that helps ...

[img]http://www.skw.no-ip.org/download/scrn001.JPG\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 22, 2004, 07:00:00 pm »

that was me again, hmm i suppose what i need is a script tutorial for zaurus, the one in the how to section didnt help as much as i would like.


hmm i tried to execute by typing /mnt/cf/backup.sh in terminal, but it just says \"backup: not found \"

#!/bin/bash
su
mkdir -p /mnt/cf/backup
cd /mnt/cf/backup
tar -cf home.tar /home/
gzip home.tar
tar -cf opt.tar /opt
gzip opt.tar
echo \"backup successful\"
exit 0

anything i did wrong?

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 22, 2004, 03:15:27 pm »

thanks, if i wanted to create a script for it would s work? and where do i put the script?

#!/bin/bash
su
cd /mnt/cf
tar -cf backup.tar /home/root
gzip backup.tar
exit 0

thanks again...maybe after messing w/ the zaurus for a while i\'ll actually learn linux :-p

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 22, 2004, 11:22:29 am »

thats was me, forgot to login

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Software / dump ramdisk to cf?

« on: February 22, 2004, 01:29:49 am »

theres probably a easy way to do this, but my linux skills are somewhere around non-existant, so bear w/ me please. ive got my zaurus setup just like i want right now, going on a trip next week and was wondering if it was possible to dump everything in the ramdisk to cf, so if i mess it up i can flash from image on cf and restore what was on ramdisk this way i wont have to reinstall all my programs again, thanks

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5x00 General discussions / Start from scratch with a 256mb SD and TKRom - Read please!

« on: February 21, 2004, 01:15:22 pm »

where is this script? the link doesnt work for me :-( thanks

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Accessories / help w/ simpletech SD card

« on: February 20, 2004, 09:17:37 pm »

i saw a post on the devnet mirror that someone had patched the SD driver so that it waited longer on resume to mount to fix this problem, does anyone have this patched SD driver? or know how i can patch it?

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Accessories / help w/ simpletech SD card

« on: February 20, 2004, 07:38:40 pm »

I just got my 128MB SD card yesterday, put the cacko rom on my SL 5500 and all was good until i tried to suspend/resume, which resulted in the Z not being able to access the SD card and needed a reboot everytime i suspend/resume, ive tried to use fsck and it always says that inode 5989, and 5990 has zero dtime, also tried to run badblocks, but doesnt come up w/ any bad blocks. did i get a faulty card? or is there something im not doing right? i think it might have worked the first couple times, until i put ~60MBs of mp3s on it :-(

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Accessories / good deal on wired keyboard if it works

« on: February 08, 2004, 01:09:01 pm »

does anyone know if this logitech typeaway keyboard will work?

Logitech TypeAway Folding Keyboard for Palm PDA for $18 - coupon code xpcgearkc09 = $13.50

http://store.yahoo.com/extremepcgear/logtypeaway.html

really kewl deal if it works, as i dont have $ to spend on a IR keyboard

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Software / notes w/ drawings?

« on: February 02, 2004, 04:01:16 pm »

is there a program for drawing that will let me scroll down indefinately? cause one page length usually isnt enough.