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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 14, 2005, 08:02:47 pm »

No, But I'm not real sure how to.  Do I just type ipkg-link mount/mnt/card in the terminal?  Obvious newbie I know!  That's why I need the man pages.

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 14, 2005, 01:47:32 am »

Well, I've come a long way, sd formatted ext2, able to install apps from feed, and have everything running pretty smooth.  My only glitch comes back to the man pages, has anyone installed them on opie from the feed?  I thought is was the ext2 partition thing,  but it still won't work right.  I've tried both installing to root and to the SD with the same results.

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 11, 2005, 01:14:23 pm »

I've decided to keep it simple and just format the whole card ext2. That went fine.  Thanks for your help!

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 11, 2005, 12:49:41 pm »

"Disk /dev/mmcda1: 125 MB, 125943808 bytes 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 960 cylinders Units = Cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 bytes"

When I fdisked it, it asks starting cylinder (1-960) I started with one(default) ending I chose 480 (half of 960) for the "6" partition.  For the ext2 partition I chose 481 (default) to 960 default.  Is my thinking flawed here?

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 10, 2005, 10:21:01 pm »

Ok, I've got dosfstools and e2fsprogs installed and my partitioning and dos partition format goes fine.  I view the partitions and they are both around 64 meg, but when I (mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcda2) I get a message that tells me "Device size reported to be zero and that I may need to re-read my partion table.  I rebooted, went into fdisk, typed "w" to write changes (none made) and it said re-reading partition table, but it still won't format.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks as always,

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 10, 2005, 03:57:51 pm »

Cool! Thanks!

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 10, 2005, 03:15:30 pm »

I found the newbies format page, (I am one too!).  Very clear and helpful but it doesn't seem to work.  I can get through the partition part, but when I go to format I get, "mkfs.msdos: not found.  I'm trying to make a fat and ext2 partition now.

Thanks,

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 09, 2005, 10:20:48 pm »

I think I may have dug up the problem, but I'm not sure.  I'm under the impression that if I format my SD card to EXT2 it will work better.  First of all, is this true?  I've been trying to, but when I try to unmount the card I just get "not found".  If someone can help a total newbie to format his SD card, I would be grateful!

Cheers!

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Man Pages From Feed

« on: March 09, 2005, 05:50:20 pm »

I've made alot of headway since my last series of posts on software installs on opie.  I now know how to use the packagemanager from the feed!  On my quest to learn Linux, I've attempted to install the man pages from the feed, but have problems.  I installed both man and the man-pages onto my SD card and they work in a limited fashion.  Man appears to work but can't find the pages.  I look on my SD and they are all there.  Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks,

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms Install Problems

« on: March 07, 2005, 10:55:04 pm »

I started messing around with the packagemanager and it connected!  Scrap the last question.

Thanks

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms Install Problems

« on: March 07, 2005, 10:47:04 pm »

I'm really feeling dumb here!  I've searched the forum for something on how to use the packagemanager to install from the feed, but have had no luck.  Is there a how-to or something that I'm not finding.

Thanks for you patience with me!!

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms Install Problems

« on: March 07, 2005, 07:19:45 pm »

This probably sounds like a totally stupid question, but should I install stuff directly from the feed with packagemanager?  I've been doing it by dropping on my CF from my laptop and installing it local.  I know a lot of what I'm asking is probably covered somewhere else in the forums or elsewhere, but I'm learning quiet a bit here and appreciate everyone's help immensly!  

Cheers!

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms Install Problems

« on: March 06, 2005, 11:45:54 pm »

Your right, my newbiness is shining bright!  Do you have a recommendation for an easy to install mp3 player for opie?

Thanks,

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms Install Problems

« on: March 05, 2005, 11:53:05 am »

With this forums help I was able to get Konqueror up and running, thanks!  Now I'm attempting to install XMMS and having similar issues.  When I try to run it from the consol I get "error while loading shared libraries: libglib-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"  I tried to find liblib-1.2.so.0 on the feed, but couldn't.  Am I on the right track?

Thanks,

Roy

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Konqueror Problems

« on: March 03, 2005, 10:17:04 pm »

Woo Hoo!  I'm responding from my Z!  Many thanks to you both!  Now onto mpe3's.  Wish me  luck,  have I advanced to newbie now?

Thanks again,

Roy