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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Selecting a zImage for the SL-5500

« on: June 22, 2004, 11:07:22 pm »

I used to run OZ 3.2 on my 5000D (like a 5500, but half the memory).   I used the 32-0 image and had a 128M SD that I formatted as ext2.  At first I put /home, /opt and /root on the card (as described here: [url=http://www.openzaurus.org/oz_website/faq/faq?id=31][a href=\"http://www.openzaurus.org/oz_website/faq/faq?id=31\" target=\"_blank\"][a href=\"http://www.openzaurus.org/oz_website/faq/faq?id=31\" target=\"_blank\"][a href=\"http://www.openzaurus.org/oz_website/faq/faq?id=31\" target=\"_blank\"][a href=\"http://www.openzaurus.org/oz_website/faq/faq?id=31\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.openzaurus.org/oz_website/faq/faq?id=31[/url][/a][/a][/a][/a] ). Later I did a pivot_root scheme (as described here: www.openzaurus.org/oz_website/faq/faq?id=192), this way everything installed to and was run from the card (which is noticeably slower).  Unfortunately, I did have some reliability problems with SD/MMC cards - some of them seem to not like ext2 or the Zaurus, and the pivot_root scheme let me pop the card out and boot to 'stock' OZ 3.2, where I could mount the card and try to fix the filesystem.   I've had so much trouble with SD/MMC cards that I tend to just install apps to it and keep my documents on CF.

LL

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Sacramento / Zaurus Users in Sacramento

« on: May 13, 2004, 04:25:15 pm »

I live near Sac (West Sacramento: It\'s in Yolo County).   Although, I didn\'t vote in your poll.....I have a SL5000D.   Actually, I have two of \'em.    I bought one, and then I was one of 50 people who won one from a programming contest Trolltech/Sharp put on two years ago...

A shiny new Zaurus would be nice, but after having been dragged through WindowsCE v1 v2 and v3, I\'m tired of buying PDAs!

LL