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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / How To Recover Netwalker Without Boot Into Desktop?

« on: April 25, 2010, 04:48:23 am »

Hi all,

My Netwalker boots into the normal Ubuntu screen and then a long long long black screen and just can't boot into the Desktop.

I know there is a way using restore.sh and a Micro-SD card to recover it to the stock setting, but now I even cannot load to X.

Can anybody figure out how I could recover (or fix?) it?

Thanks in advanced.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dual Booting In Old Model

« on: September 02, 2005, 12:57:14 am »

I saw another thread discussing dualboot c3000 with rc10 akita. I dun own a c3000 yet but I also want to have it dualbooted with the latest version of pdaxrom.  

May I know is it hard (or very hard) to make a rooted archive of pdaxroom? What sort of tools do I need to make one? I need some advises...  

Thanks people here  

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User Request for Applications / Risk-like Strategy Game

« on: September 01, 2005, 03:07:53 am »

I surf LinuxGames this afternoon and found a game named TEG which is a risk-like board game...It's fun!

The source code can be downloaded here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/teg/teg...tar.gz?download

May I request with courtesy that someone can do a port of this game to Zaurus?  

Here's the homepage: http://teg.sourceforge.net/

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Sharp ROMs / Help On Sharprom Dependencies...

« on: August 19, 2005, 03:17:52 pm »

Two days ago, I have posted a thread here saying that I can't run opie-camera properly on Cacko 1.22a.

I mailed Michael already and very sorry to hear that he has stopped the work on sharproms...

I am wondering can any linux genius help to deal with the dependencies of opie-camera on sharproms?

I really appreciate, thanks!  

P.S. the opie packages can be found here:

1.0.1-r0
1.2.0-r0

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Software / Opie-camera Dependencies

« on: August 17, 2005, 12:35:30 pm »

I have installed opie-camera to my Z with Cacko 1.22a on it. But when I try to start this app, nothing appears on the screen, it seems that there are some problem with dependencies so that the app cannot be launched.

Is there anyone have successfully installed and use opie-camera on Sharp roms?

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Sharp ROMs / Help To Get Me Back Something

« on: June 03, 2005, 04:54:35 pm »

I accidentally lost this file:

/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/security

Can anyone make a copy and post it here? I am using CACKO 1.22a.

Thanks in advance!  

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User Request for Applications / Can Anyone Do A Port Of Billiardz For Cxx0

« on: June 02, 2005, 03:08:12 pm »

It is really a good game but the screen is too small for my C760...

can anyone do a port for us?  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dualboot Idiot Guide

« on: April 21, 2005, 04:56:33 pm »

For those who want to stick with Cacko 1.22 but also want to have a taste on pdaXrom without touching NAND or whatsoever (It's me   ), here are some sharings on how I dualboot my Zaurus C760.

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Firstly, for sure, you need to have Cacko 1.22 with hotfix installed: Get Cacko here

Secondly, get an ext2 or ext3 formatted SD card. To obtain, simply follow this guide: Step-by-step CF/SD fdisk/formatting for newbies. Remember to unplug and plug the SD again to remount.

Then, download the scripts required: Dual_C760.zip. Unzip and place them on the machine, for instance, I place all the extracted files at /home/zaurus/Documents

Download the pdaXrom tarball: either pdaX-SD.tar.gz or pdaX-1.0.5-SD.tar.gz. I am not sure whether the latter is the real 1.0.5. Let's pick this one.

Transfer and extract the tarball to the root of SD card. To do this, you need to have gtar installed in order to let the system understand the "p" flag to preserve permissions, the gtar package is included in Dual_C760.zip:

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$ su
# ipkg install /home/zaurus/gtar_1.13.25-1_arm.ipk
# cd /mnt/card/
# gtar -zxvpf pdaX-1.0.5-SD.tar.gz
Next, follow these steps:

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# mount -o rw,remount /
# mkdir /sbin/sys
# cp /sbin/init /sbin/sys/init
# rm /sbin/init
# cp /home/zaurus/init /sbin/init
# cp /home/zaurus/pivot_root /sbin/pivot_root
# chmod +x /sbin/init
# chmod +x /sbin/pivot_root
Since there are changes on the filesystem in Cacko 1.22, line 12 in the /sbin/init script needs to be altered:

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mount -n -r -t cramfs /boot/usr.bin /usr -o loop
to

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mount -n -r -t squashfs /boot/usr.bin /usr -o loop
I also attached the modified /sbin/init script, for the sake of convenience.

It's nearly the end, remount / as read-only and reboot:

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# mount -o ro,remount /
# reboot
Your Zaurus should now boot into pdaXrom with SD plugged in, and boot into Cacko otherwise. When booted into pdaXrom, login as root and issue startx.
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Although this guide may looks idiot, like me, I did put a hard effort on dualbooting my Z (Stu should know, Many thanks  ). I hope someone can benefit from it. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dual Booting Help

« on: April 12, 2005, 10:53:39 am »

I follow the script to dual boot the system, upon bootup with SD card, the following message appears:

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mount: Mounting /boot/usr.bin on /usr failed: Invalid argument
mount: Mounting /dev/mmcda1 on /usr/mnt.rom/card failed: No such file or directory

Chainloading rom init
exec: /sbin/sys/init: symbolic link loop
After that the system stops loading. I followed exactly the steps provided in this thread: https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8233

except that in step 5, when I tried to copy init script to /sbin/, console prompt me that it is busy, so I remove /sbin/init and copy the init script to /sbin/ instead.

I finished all steps and attempt rebooting the system, it waits and waits and just can't have the system reboot, so I then perform a reset by removing the battery and plugging in again to restart the system.

Am I doing something wrong in this way?

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Sharp ROMs / Help Z Just Can't Boot Up

« on: April 08, 2005, 02:23:09 pm »

After I installed the irda applet onto my Z and perform a reboot, it locks up at "Please wait...starting linux and qtopia" screen and doesn't allow me into the system.

I have got something important inside the user partitions in the RAM, how could I have it backed up in advance? And could it be fixed without newly install the ROM?

My Z is now using CACKO 1.22a. Many thanks to guys here  

I tried the "backup user partition" function of the CACKO installer, but it keeps the blue screen here and a cursor blinking at the bottom after I entered the backup name, and a blinking email LED...

Do I have to wait or do something else? I really dun know if it is working now...

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Sharp ROMs / Z Crashes When Applets Installed

« on: March 29, 2005, 02:31:10 pm »

I am using 760 with CACKO 1.22a installed. I have installed a number of taskbar applets on Z, and now once I install a new applet or change some settings on subapplet, for instance, Z restarts.

It's troublesome to wait the Z to boot up if I just need to change some minor settings. Does anyone advise on how I could find out the source of crash by looking at some log files or whatsoever?  

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Sharp ROMs / Is Libsdl In Cacko 1.22 The Same...?

« on: January 16, 2005, 09:28:38 am »

Is libSDL in 1.22 the same as the ipk that I previously downloaded from the net?

libsdl_1.2.5-slzaurus20031201_arm.ipk

I have installed this version, but later I find out that 1.22 has libSDL 1.2.5 bundled, it looks that there are some difference in performance...

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Sharp ROMs / Can't Launch Konsole After Cacko 1.22 Installed

« on: January 06, 2005, 11:55:37 am »

I can't launch konsole after CACKO 1.22 has been installed.

Anyone get any idea?  

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Cxx0 General discussions / How to bring back the CRIM?

« on: June 23, 2004, 06:02:04 pm »

Can I have CRIM back to my zaurus c760 after Cacko rom has been installed?

I found it quite useful in typing chinese characters.