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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Installing Pdaxrom On Sl 5600?

« on: July 08, 2005, 10:35:23 am »

I see I was unclear, I did mean installing this on an SL-5600 (the SL-6000 flash recognizes my 5600, so I used that as the 2 are similar). However, since attempting to install pdaXrom, I've lost my home partition and can only get OZ to boot (perhaps it doesn't require a /home to fully boot), and I stil can't get pdaXrom to install.

So ...
1 - (prefered) How can I install pdaXrom?
or
2 - How can I restore my Zaurus to a "normal" partitioning scheme?

I've flashed OZ to Sharp and back many times, so I don't think this is OZ's problem.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Installing Pdaxrom On Sl 5600?

« on: July 07, 2005, 10:07:20 pm »

this ?
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13048&hl=
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Thats pretty much what I did. I tried it again, the install worked great, but it won't boot, just a flashing cursor with the OZ logo. "df" reported /dev/root as 6601 used, 921 free, and the only other partion on the device was /dev/shm. "uname -a" reports the kernel as 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix.

I then tried to install the Wapaton ROM (sharp based), and the install was normal. However, the zaurus now sits on the Sharp "Please wait for approximately 2 minutes" screen. I reran df and uname -a and they appear the same as before.

Is it too late to ask the consequences of using the NAND utilities? Any ideas for my paperweight - I would really like to get pdaXrom working, it looks awesome.

AJ Hines

[EDIT]
Ok I got OZ/OPIE to install, I still have no /home partition. So is this caused by NAND (and how do I fix it) or is it an OZ issue?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Installing Pdaxrom On Sl 5600?

« on: July 07, 2005, 11:07:31 am »

I have been reading that most of the SL6000 users have had to install Guylhems ROM first, then pdaXrom (in order to resize the partition). However, the Guylhems ROM is only for the sl6000.

I tried to install pdaXrom (w/o resizing, using the SL6000 image, which recognizes my 5600) and got an error (a flash error I think). I then read the install guide on the website and used the NAND tools to resize the root partition to 45mb (before I read the post that told sl6000 users not to do this). I also tried a 47mb partition. The install eigther hangs when formatting the user partition, or, if I choose not to format the user partition it reboots. And it comes up with the OZ/GPE icon, but hangs indefinately. So it seems GPE is mostly gone, but pdaXrom has not fully/properly installed.

Any ideas what I can try - I am willing to experiment to figure this out, if anyone has suggestions.

Should I / can I attempt to undo the NAND resize?

Thanks for your time.

AJ Hines

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc10 Out For Testing..

« on: June 30, 2005, 02:01:33 pm »

How should we install for the 5600 if we can't use the NAND tools (the SL6000 image recognizes my 5600, but errors/hangs on installation)? What can I use besides the Guylhem ROM to resize? Or has anyone gotten the Guylhem ROM to work on the 5600 (trying it will require buying a larger CF Card, so I would like to know if it can/should work first)? I currently have the OZ/GPE Image.

Thanks for your help!
AJ

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / pdaXrom and gentoo for Z on 5500?

« on: February 14, 2005, 03:06:23 pm »

Thanks for the update - I am really looking forward to using this!


AJ Hines
Web Developer
www.jagtechnologies.net