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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Rom: New Versioning System

« on: November 08, 2006, 04:26:10 am »

2. dist-upgrade does not respect user alterations, it re-installed packages that I had removed, and it changed my decorative settings back to default.

Samac

Interesting. Sounds like some hentges-* packages do not like beeing reinstalled biggrin.gif
Thanks for spotting it, I'll have a look.

Could you give me an example which packages were re-installed after you had removed them?

PLEASE IGNORE THE BIT ABOUT PACKAGES. I speak much rubbish!!!! The bit about the decor is still OK.

Sorry

Samac
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I encountered the decor issue. I found that my external root home was no longer mounted as /home/root.

Got it back through an /etc/.<some hentges file> edition before some init script rerun. Can't remember which file, but I'm giving a clue.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Two Hentges (and Oz) Questions

« on: February 07, 2006, 04:58:51 am »

Perl does not appear in the OZ feeds. What is the correct way to install perl on the Zaurus?
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Some time ago, while testing OZ/GPE, I found Perl packages in [a href=\"http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/sfeed/]"sfeed" feed[/url]. Version 5.8.7.

It's working perfectly well on OZ 3.5.4RC1. If nroff is not installed, perldoc will make you read pod directly. Not a great deal.

Maybe is there an actual feed providing newer versions.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Release Candidate

« on: January 21, 2006, 05:39:55 pm »

I'm considering uploading Hentges ROM's for Collie as bootable images in addition to the flashable ROM.
Should make things alot less frustrating for many people.

On the upside, Collie has the smallest image of the supported machines, just another 15Mb to upload   

So, now's your turn. Lets assume I will upload a bootable image for the next RC release in addition to the normal images, which rootfs size for the image do you prefer? The uncompressed size doesn't really matter to me at all. Empty space compresses neatly  

Make your choice:
-100Mb
-150Mb
-300Mb
-1Gb
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Great !

I had several bad times with ipkg-link. As space is not a major issue using SD cards, having a large root filesystem sounds really attractive to me.

I tried 250 to 300MB with OZ 3.5.3 and it was large enought. Should be the same.

I experienced the most stability using your ROM. Having such large rootfs would add a tremendous ease of use. Thanks again, Coredump !

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Release Candidate

« on: January 21, 2006, 10:50:46 am »

If you have never used a Hentges ROM before, you should read the CardFS Feature List and the CardFS HowTo

1) Flashed my collie. I'm getting stuck while adding some more apps : ipkg-link adds a few bytes per link, but it certainly fills root.
I'm interested in pivoting root on SD. I tried to use advanced options during altboot but option [8] complains of not finding media.

I tried then to follow some HowTo on OpenZaurus site. I managed to do it when I tried OZ 3.5.4RC1, but couldn't this time, even when adapting instructions from
a previous assistance you gave. Operation "mount -o move /dev /dev.tmp" fails as /dev is not a character device.

I guess I'm rather bad at this. Can you give me some more details than "the mount -o bind trick" I found in CardFS HowTo ?

2) While configuring SubApplet, I lost touchscreen and keyboard. Could ssh to the box, start and stop Opie but had no way to interact with it from Zaurus.
I haven't seen anything obvious in my Settings folder, but destroying everything and rebooting took me out of it.
I can't say for sure it's coming from subapplet, as my solution has been rather rude.


The point about pivoting root is the main one for me. I'm ready to experiment, and just need a direction to search. Thanks !

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Boston / Zaurus Shops In Boston ?

« on: December 01, 2004, 02:55:42 am »

I can order from France, I'll not waste time looking for a shop.

Thanks !

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Boston / Zaurus Shops In Boston ?

« on: November 30, 2004, 05:21:56 pm »

Hi !

My job will send my from France to Boston next week. Rather Burlington I guess.

I may want to change or upgrade my Z. Do you have some advice, some shop to look at near Burlington/Boston ?

Any help appreciated !


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