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Zaurus - pdaXrom / partitioning SD card

« on: October 28, 2004, 11:12:45 pm »

Sure.

I'm assuming you're using RC5 btw.  The locations are a bit different in 1.0.5

in a console do...

umount /mnt/card
fdisk /dev/mmcd/disc0/disc
p (see what partitions you have)
d (delete em)
n (new partition)
p (primary)
1 (when asked for the endpoint use the +50M option/ substitute 50 for how ever big you want it)
w (writes to disk)
mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcd/disc0/part1 (formats it)

then pull the sucker out and sick it in your windows box and use the disk manager to add a fat partition after your linux one.  formating fat32 works fine for me fyi.

You can also create both partiton on the z, just be sure to change one of them to the Fat in fdisk. "t" command in fdisk..  doing it in windows is prolly the easiest way tho

hope that helps

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Ultima7 on RC5 - color problem

« on: October 28, 2004, 08:55:29 pm »

Not really a suggestion, but you got my support.  I love that damn game.  I for one would love to see you fix that ipk up.  Dont give up!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Outlook 2003 Sync'ing / no known support

« on: October 28, 2004, 08:42:28 pm »

It works with my Outlook 2003 and 6000.  However i had to use a bit of trickery to get it to work.  I installed Outlook XP first, then installed intellisync.  Once it synced a few times i upgraded to 2003 and have had no problems.

When just installed 2003 alone as a full version intellisync would crash every time i tried to configure it.

hope this helps


also i am using an exchange account and no pst files

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Most important missing/to be fixed in pdaXrom?

« on: October 26, 2004, 10:55:38 pm »

Three things i'd like.

1.  Keep on doing what you're doing.  The rom is fantastic and I cant even imagine using any pda that cant run it now.

2.  On that same note, I gotta nudge for support for the 6000 series

3.  Dual booting to a sharp or cacko rom would be killer

Again, thanks for this amazing rom  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Broken package manager?

« on: October 22, 2004, 12:32:40 am »

OK   I figured it out.  DONT USE VFAT.  I had my SD card formated as vfat and i had symlinked my tmp to there.  Formatted the sucker ext3 and no problems so far.   Man, linux can be overwhelming for a n00b

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / how do you load ikp to sd from xterm

« on: October 22, 2004, 12:30:14 am »

oops!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / how do you load ikp to sd from xterm

« on: October 21, 2004, 11:15:43 pm »

Sandisk SD cards stink no question about that.  Funny how they were on the on the board that setup the SD standard.  The cards they were putting out two years ago didnt work on half the PDAs on the market.  Including my 5500 and my Axim X5.

I have little faith in the "new revisions" too.  I have one rule when buying flash now... MADE IN JAPAN

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Broken package manager?

« on: October 21, 2004, 10:59:40 pm »

I'm having the same problem.  Working with a 121 root partition and plenty of space.

Package Manager spits out
[span style=\'font-size:8pt;line-height:100%\']Downloading
http://mirror1.pdaxrom.org/rc5/feed/libidl....8_armv5tel.ipk ... Done.
ipkg_install_file: ERROR: unpacking control.tar.gz from //home/tmp/ipkg/libild_0.6.8_armv5tel.ipk
ipkg_get_install: ERROR: Failed to install //home/tmp/ipkg/libidl_0.6.8_armv5tel.ipk
[/span]

Looked in /home/tmp/ipkg and indeed the file is there and was downloaded

if i try to do a "ipkg install -d root foo.ipk" it goes out to get the file from the website but shoots out a 404.  A "ipkg update" finds the site fine however and updates the list.

an "ipkg install foo.ipk -d root" however spits out
[span style=\'font-size:8pt;line-height:100%\']tar: ./control: Cannot change ownership to uid 1000, gid 100: Operation not permitted[/span]

Any help would be apreciated as I'm still warming up to linux.  I think I'm picking it up pretty well as am completely addicted to my 860 now.  pdaXrom blows my mind, just wish i could add some packages to my install.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / how do you load ikp to sd from xterm

« on: October 19, 2004, 10:35:59 pm »

Ive gotten the same problem with ext2 filesystems.  I just use vfat and its been fine.

you gotta do what you gotta do