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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Random whine

« on: November 02, 2004, 05:21:31 pm »

Windrose.... yes, it's definitely more painful than it should be.   Every so often I feel like just going out to buy a PocketPC, or a Palm.  And then I look at the keyboard.  I look at the screen (having a Unix shell on a PDA is verrrrrrry cool)...  and I give it another go.      Sometimes I think I must like the pain, why else am I still trying?


But you got me thinking of a couple things that could probably be quite easily done which would help you, me and others...

- pre-populate /etc/ipkg.conf with current online feeds, saving us a lot of awkward typing

- release a single-download zip file containing the entire package feed, which could be unzipped onto a CF/SD card for those without network connections

- provide an example /etc/ipkg.conf for local feeds as above


rodney

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Editing files from the opie-free command line

« on: November 01, 2004, 11:07:16 pm »

I was doing it remotely via ssh, which allows me to copy 'n paste the commands to the Zaurus command-line...

If you are using Windows, "putty" is the ssh client to use.

rodney

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Random whine

« on: November 01, 2004, 05:12:28 pm »

   I feel your pain!  And I have a 5500...

How are you installing things?   From the GUI?  Packagemanager as shipped doesn't work, have you replaced it?  

rodney

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Where is the best place to report bugs?

« on: October 30, 2004, 06:13:42 pm »

Is it just me?   guest/guest doesn't seem to work on http://bugs.openembedded.org/index.html    

rodney

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Steps to a functional packagemanager in 3.5.1

« on: October 22, 2004, 11:13:37 pm »

Hi all.

Like a lot of others, I was quite frustrated by the package manager app that shipped with Opie in 3.5.1.  If I hadn't wasted a few hours fighting it, it would be a joke.  

But after reading quite a few posts and trying a few things, I've come up with a way to get what *seems* to be a functional package manager going, right after flashing.

Here's what I do on my 5500...

1.  Flash 3.5.1 with Opie (64-0, if it matters)

2.  Before turning the Z on, insert SD card and network card.

3.  Boot up, and press a key at the appropriate time to keep Opie from starting

4.  Log in, either on the Z, or remotely using SSH (recommended)

5.  run the following sequence of commands... currently I copy and paste each command from a text editor to my SSH client (putty), but at some point it will become a shell script I can copy over and run in one shot

# get rid of things we don't want from 3.5.1
    ipkg remove portmap
    ipkg remove opie-packagemanager

# get rid of any apps from the last install
    rm -rf /mnt/card/*

# go with a stripped-down config file (leave root out if you want)
    rm /etc/ipkg.conf
    printf "\ndest sd /mnt/card\n" >> /etc/ipkg.conf
    printf "\ndest root /\n" >> /etc/ipkg.conf
    printf "\nsrc oz-unstable http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed\n" >> /etc/ipkg.conf

# go see what packages are available
    ipkg update

# install a better package manager
    ipkg install -d root opie-aqpkg
    ipkg install -d root opie-symlinker


Then reboot, let Opie start, and at least I can install things with the gui -- with the OZ feed already configured.

I don't know if everything works with opie-aqpkg, I haven't tried adding a feed, but so far I've been able to install some things to my SD card with it.

Now if only OZ had shipped with this to begin with...


rodney

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / fdisk

« on: February 12, 2004, 11:09:09 pm »

Oops, wasn\'t logged in.

Also, this was on a 5500.  Using a Lexar 256Mb SD card that I have yet to get completely working... :-(