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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Open Zaurus Doesn't Recognize mkfs.ext2?

« on: December 07, 2004, 11:08:55 pm »

On OZ 3.5.2, I cant seem to find a way to reformat my SD card back to FAT16.  I cannot find the mkfs.msdos program... any ideas on what I could do?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Help A Noob With Oz Please.

« on: December 07, 2004, 09:50:35 pm »

Hey thanks for the clarification guys, keep up the awsome work on OZ, all your time/effort is greatly appriciated.  I have formatted my SD card with ext2fs, as I have read something about doing that to allow symlinks to work properly when installing a program to SD.  Now, time to test it all out. Im so noob'd up when it comes to this linux stuff.

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General Discussion / Hey All - First Post

« on: December 07, 2004, 09:45:58 pm »

Well as a semi-long-time SL-5600 user, and fellow newbie to the boards, welcome.  I am currently using OpenZaurus 3.5.2 on my 5600, and it's great.  You seem to know alot about linux, so you may want to go with one of the other roms.  My suggestion to you would be to check out each one, and see what best suits the features you want.  As far as the VoIP on the zaurus, I have wondered about that too, I have seen a prog at killefiz.de, but I never got it working.  Would VoIP be considered the same thing that ventrilo (a voice-chat program for gamers) would use?  That would be great to have.  And yeah, $210 is a good price for the zaurus, as last time I checked amazon.com, they were selling used 5600s for $349! Jeez, I bought mine for $299 from amazon about 11 months ago... how did the prices go up?? Maybe with the new release of OZ 3.5.2?  I think it's a conspiracy  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Help A Noob With Oz Please.

« on: December 06, 2004, 08:35:06 pm »

Hello, I have recently installed OZ 3.5.2 on my SL-5600, and I love it.  Everything seems to be working alot smoother than 3.5.1.  I've had a zaurus for a while now, i've been using Zynergy (very nice rom too) and I'm not that good with Linux.  Anyways, with OZ, it seems that it split up all the ram (and rom?) to different partitons by default.  I have the following setup:

Internal Storage /dev/root: 22528kB (8680kB free)
Internal Storage /dev/mtdblock3: 35840kB (30132kB free)
Internal Membory : 15004kB (14956 free)
SD Card : 248960kB (alot of free space)

I am having trouble figuring out where to install ipk's to.  When I install by default (I beleive it installs to the " / " directory) That takes up space really fast, and I dont think that is the right spot, even though the program works fine.  However, when I install to /dev/mtdblock3, the programs do not show up anywhere.  This is probably something minor that I am missing, but I could not find any answers in any FAQ's or forums.  I just need to know how to install programs correctly to the internal storage,  or the SD card, just wherever I can put a bunch of programs.  Thanks for the help.

P.S. did the 3.5.2 ver of OZ fix the clock reset issue?
P.S.S does OZ include the cache errata workaround for the PXA-250 processor?