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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Padxrom Update

« on: February 16, 2006, 10:43:48 pm »

I have never updated the pdaXrom on my 3100.

In these instructions: http://www.pdaxrom.org/index.php?showid=2&menuid=1, it says I must re-format. Does this mean I would have to re-install everything from scratch again or is it just an upgrade?

If only updating, is there part of these instructions I skip? Specifically how do I handle parts 10 and/or 13? I forget how big my root partition is. How can I check that? Also, I remember setting my HD to be only one partition...

I'm running rc12 and am thinking of updating to: 1.1.0beta1.

Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Firefox And Aterm

« on: November 09, 2005, 11:38:25 pm »

Anyone else notice that they can't start aterm from the panel while firefox is running? xvkbd will still start. I'm running RC12 on a C1000
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I've found the aterm applet to be really flakey on a 3100. Never noticed the Firefox correlation. I sometimes had to remove and then add it, and then it worked. Now, I've switched to icewm to be able to hide the panel...

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Accessories / Solar Powered Z

« on: November 09, 2005, 04:09:35 am »

http://www.simplyplaystation.com/product/L...,-DS-and-SP/11/

http://shop.brando.com.hk/solarchargerforpspnds.php

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Normal Vs. Root User

« on: November 08, 2005, 10:01:32 pm »

PS Don't credit me - I didn't contribute anything useful to this discussion!
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Apologies to hobnob. His/her suggestion was the fix.

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Security and Networking / Getting Internet Working For The Z Across Usb

« on: November 07, 2005, 08:36:57 pm »

I've got shorewall(and webmin-shorewall) setup, now what? can you walk me through step by step?
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There are websites that are far more qualified than me i helping you do this. First, make sure you have all the right modules loaded for masquerading on your linux laptop, then the only part of shorewall you have to set-up is masquerading.
I've attached my complete /etc/shorewall directory from my gentoo linux set-up. Maybe try replacing yours with this one, or looking thru it for clues. Sorry, work is real busy this week...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Normal Vs. Root User

« on: November 07, 2005, 06:19:42 pm »

If I let someone use my Z, then I have to give them root privileges?
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Well to be fair, this is an unusual situation.  PDAs are normally single-user machines.
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What if you want to deploy Z's to field staff? As an administrator, you don't want to give root access to the clueless. I don't think the situation is unusual at all.
Anyway, following the suggestions of sashz and hobnob. I got it to work.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Normal Vs. Root User

« on: November 07, 2005, 06:15:11 pm »

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This worked! Thanks!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Battery Issue On C3100

« on: November 05, 2005, 03:34:06 pm »

what is your autonomy with pdaxrom?
with my 3100, i've between 6 and 8 hours with the sharp rom
and between 2 and 4 hours with pdaxrom
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I used it for 4 1/2 hours the other day and the battery wasn't dead with 25% power left. I'm not using WiFi. My screen was set at 3, I'm not using any swap.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Easy Clearing Out Unused Dependencies

« on: November 05, 2005, 04:36:27 am »

I guess 'ipkg -h' or reading http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Ipkg is too hard for some people:
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- I guess assuming that people haven't run 'ipkg -h', gives you a right to accuse others of laziness. FYI, if you run 'ipkg -h' on a 3100 running pdaXrom '-force-removal-of-dependent-packages or -recursive', is not shown as the help file is apparently truncated. The info. I needed is in your post. Thank you. That's what these forums are for. So, I'm lazy? You did not check to see what the actual output of 'ipkg -h' was on the machines we're running. THAT is lazy. You ASSUMED I am illiterate. But, it didn't stop you from making a personal attack. Now, why don't you make a guess as to a word I'm thinking of to describe your snide remark? The first three letters are identical to, and have the same number of letters as a capitalized word above...
- I'll try your suggestion and read the link. Thanks again.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Battery Issue On C3100

« on: November 05, 2005, 03:44:17 am »

little bump
any news? no one?
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What battery problem?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom, 3100 & Swap

« on: November 04, 2005, 04:47:04 pm »

also be aware that a swapfile *MUST* be contiguous (no fragments).  In other words, the swap file you create on a partition already populated with files can only be as large as your biggest free area on the partition.  Of course you can also create multiple smaller swapfiles to compensate.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, is there a command line tool that can tell me how big any contiguous free area on my HD is? Even if I had that information, would making a file automatically use that space, or might the swapfile I make still be fragmented?
Would a fast SD card (which would be easier to reformat) give as good performance as the MicroDrive?
I've always followed suggestions that a swap file should be 2X the available RAM. Would it be a complete waste of time to make a 128MB swap file? A 50% increase I figure should be plenty... I infer from your post, I could then, if I needed, create multiple smaller swapfiles. Do I just run swapon specifying various partitions and created swapfiles? i.e. I don't have to add a numerical suffix anywhere?
Thanks for this very useful info.   I thought SD prices would be way cheaper by now!

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Security and Networking / Getting Internet Working For The Z Across Usb

« on: November 04, 2005, 04:27:30 pm »

that's on my laptop right? not on the Z? I'll look into shorewall. Why don't I want anything else on? Isn't shorewall a firewall?
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You use a firewall on your laptop to give you masquerading. 'Masquerading' is the process of 'moving' traffic from USB to your ethernet connection. What I meant by not turning anything else on is that you just leave all the firewall settings open and let all connections talk freely amonst each other, because I am assuming you have your router setup to close all unneeded ports.
On your laptop you have to have the right modules loaded to allow masquerading, and you also have to be able to load the module 'usbnet'.
On your Zaurus, you have to setup "Lan & Wifi" and USB under 'System Tools', and manually edit your resolv.conf file.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Easy Clearing Out Unused Dependencies

« on: November 04, 2005, 04:22:04 pm »

I would however be interested in an app which produces a dependency tree for all of the ipks on the system (prefereably with a package size too) so that I could go through and remove things which I don't think I need.
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Gentoo's command is: emerge --depclean --ask

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Normal Vs. Root User

« on: November 04, 2005, 04:18:02 pm »

we will try add support for non root users in new release
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My /etc/busybox.conf file already contained the ping and su lines, but not the traceroute line. Adding it did nothing. If I let someone use my Z, then I have to give them root privileges?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Normal Vs. Root User

« on: November 04, 2005, 03:59:03 pm »

I don't use pdaxrom, but on a normal linux box the user has to be part of the wheel group to use su.
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It is. As I stated in my post, su does work partially. I'll try sashz' suggestion next.