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Sharp ROMs / ext2 dump / restore for Zaurus

« on: August 10, 2004, 06:55:03 pm »

Thanks rgrep,

Yes, tar is possible, but it is not really good as it might have problems to backup many important "special" files. I am not sure if /home contains some of those though.

I will try and see.

Regards

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Sharp ROMs / ext2 dump / restore for Zaurus

« on: August 09, 2004, 05:11:12 pm »

I just finished reinstall of my SL-5500 on the basis of tkcrom with lots of tweaks and adjustments.

I would like to backup the current state of /home (it is on SD now), preferably with dump. Does anyone knows the source for precompiled ARM binaries of dump / restore?

(Of course the dd would be the alternative, but dump is more elegant concidering that I might want to use larger SD card once).

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General Discussion / Thorn between 860 and 6000!

« on: May 16, 2004, 06:06:38 am »

Hi Folks,

I own a 5500 Zauri since about 6 month and pretty happy with it. I mainly use it as PDA with some additional tools and as game console (Exult and some other commercial games). I rarely use for anything more serious like \"SSHing\" and so on.

One major problem I have with 5500 is rather poor display quality when compared with newest generation of pdas. So I decided to take a look at 860 or 6000.

Now I am kind of thorn between the two, price is almost the same, features seem to be quite different. Some important questions I have are:

1) When i see my 5500 under direct strong light I can actually read the screen when background lightning is off, somehow the screen is visible, like inprinted. Is that the same on 860 and 6000?

2) How much troubles should I expect with commercial apps such as tck tools and games when moving to new zaurus? and which one of both will give me less headache 860 or 6000?

3) 5500 is very picky about SSD cards are 860 / 6000 better in that sence?

4) Anyone knows the good source of 6000 which also ships to Europe?

Best Regards

Don.Key