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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13v2

« on: December 03, 2007, 09:24:39 am »

Meanie,  after my upgrade to 5.5, my card monitor no longer shows a link for USB devices, and it doesn't popup a message box when the card is safe to remove.  Not a big deal, but I kind of liked that feature.  According to my package manager, I have version 1.0.4-6.

Any ideas?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13v2

« on: December 02, 2007, 04:16:14 am »

After my last attempt with pdaxiiv2, I reflashed back to version 5.4.9 (Sally) on my CL3100 and worked with that distro for a while.  This morning, I was itching to try 5.5.0 again, so I downloaded the latest alpha5 updater.

It ran perfectly and installed the base system - only consuming an extra 10 MB of space on my NAND partition.

I rebooted and openbox came back up, but I had no icons.  They were there, but all white with red 'x's in them.  I remembered others had problems with icons, so I can back here to read.  I tried everything mentioned here - from manually installing packages from the different feeds to running commands in the terminal to get libpng to work right.

I was just about ready to go back to 5.4.9 and I read that gtk2 had issues for someone.  So, I exited to the shell and removed gtk2, then reinstalled it.  It installed, but complained about a folder missing (with gtk in the title) and a missing library, libscim.so.  So, I uninstalled gtk2 again, installed gtk and scim, then reinstalled gtk2.  This time, no complaints.

I just finished rebooting v2 again, and openbox came up with icons intact!  It's working perfectly now.  I was surprised that upgrades weren't applied to these packages even though I ran "ipkg upgrade".  Maybe I was missing them all along...

Anyway, the new alpha5 installed perfectly and correctly guessed that I wanted the base install!  Great job Meanie!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13v2

« on: October 23, 2007, 08:50:56 am »

I actually only had 20 MB free on my NAND partition last night when I tried to upgrade from 5.4.9 to 5.5 alpha 4.  It sailed along and upgraded a couple packages installed in /mnt/ide, and installed a few in NAND.  Pretty soon, my root partition was full and I had 0 space available.  The upgrade failed and I flashed back to 5.4.9.  I will look tonight to see what packages I can move out of NAND to get atleast 30-40 MB free.

I guess the alternative is to look at the postinst script and mod it to install to /mnt/ide by default...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13v2

« on: October 22, 2007, 05:34:59 pm »

Thanks, Jon.  Made perfect sense, and that's what I was hoping to find out.  I have packages on the harddrive, and didn't want the upgrade process to try and stick those in the root area.

Does anyone know if the upgrade can work with 30 MB free in NAND?  My only real concern is in downloading the upgrade packages - they may fill my available space and cause a problem with the upgrade.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13v2

« on: October 22, 2007, 01:35:39 pm »

Meanie, is there a way I can add packages to the "Ignored" list when upgrading "pdaxiiv2-upgrade_5.5.0-alpha4_armv5tel.ipk" ?
I usually remove applications that I don't use after the upgrade process, and after this latest upgrade, I only had 17 MB left on root.
I'm afraid in future upgrades, I'll run out of root space when new packages are introduced in the upgrade.
Some of the packages I usually uninstall are 2-3 MB or larger.
If I really want to keep a large package, I'll re-install it to the hard drive.

Thank you,
Jon

I previously tried to upgrade from 5.4.9 to 5.5.0 alpha1 using the ipk while connected to the internet on my C3100 running Sally (with packages installed in NAND and on my SD card).   I only had 11 MB free in NAND, and after 20 minutes or so I got a group of errors because I ran out of room on my root partition.  The install failed, and I had to do a fresh install.

I'm back to 5.4.9 with packages installed on NAND and on /mnt/ide.  I have about 30 MB free in NAND.  How much room do we need to upgrade to 5.5.0?  I saw Meanie's response about this, but does anyone else know if the upgrade feature of ipkg will install the upgraded package to the same location as the original? (I kind of doubt it.)  Also, is the "ignore" list part of the upgrade of ipkg?  I haven't seen anything about this until the last few posts.

Thanks!