C3000

[echo6]

I've previously installed the pdaxrom onto a 860.   The C3000 is a different beast altogether.   I've read the C3000 Device Specifics which refers to the 4Gb hdd on /dev/hdd,  the layout of my C3000 though is like this

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/mmcda: 1030 MB, 1030225920 bytes
4 heads, 3 sectors/track, 167680 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 12 * 512 = 6144 bytes

     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcda1            21    167680   1005958+   6  FAT16
/dev/mmcda2             1         1         0    0  Empty
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Disk /dev/hdc: 4095 MB, 4095737856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7936 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1             1       204    102784+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc2           205      1020    411264   83  Linux
/dev/hdc3          1021      7936   3485664    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc4             1         1         0    0  Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (ro)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/mtdblock3 on /home type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
/dev/ram1 on /dev type minix (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hdc1 on /hdd1 type ext3 (ro,noatime)
/dev/hdc2 on /hdd2 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/hdc3 on /hdd3 type vfat (rw,noatime)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/mmcda1 on /usr/mnt.rom/card type vfat (rw,noatime)
# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                    5.0M      5.0M         0 100% /
/dev/root                 5.0M      5.0M         0 100% /
/dev/mtdblock3            4.0M      1.9M      2.1M  46% /home
/dev/ram1                44.0k     29.0k     15.0k  66% /dev
none                      1.0M     24.0k   1000.0k   2% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc1                97.2M     49.2M     43.0M  53% /hdd1
/dev/hdc2               388.9M     48.2M    320.7M  13% /hdd2
/dev/hdc3                 3.3G    748.3M      2.6G  22% /hdd3
/dev/mmcda1             982.1M    117.6M    864.5M  12% /usr/mnt.rom/card

I don't want to make a brick,  any advice would be appreciated,  i.e. can I just follow the install instruction and have OZ installed.   Also where can I get some screen shots  of OZ in action?

[Mickeyl]

Install instructions: http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c3000/ - follow them CLOSELY.

Teaser:
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[lpotter]

Install instructions: http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c3000/ - follow them CLOSELY.

Teaser:
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crickie! wouldnt ya know I leave all my zaurus power adapters at work.. heh.....

[echo6]

Install instructions: http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c3000/ - follow them CLOSELY.

1) Ensure that your C3000 machine has a standard flash partitioning (e.g. as it was originally), flashing may fail if this is not the case

That's the bit that is throwing me,  cause my partitioning layout isn't as described by C3000 device specifics!
Can you produce outputs of the following for me,  please.

fdisk -l
mount
df -h

Thanks.

sometime later

  it would help if I had removed the SD card before a reboot!!!

[Mickeyl]

1) Ensure that your C3000 machine has a standard flash partitioning (e.g. as it was originally), flashing may fail if this is not the case

That's the bit that is throwing me,  cause my partitioning layout isn't as described by C3000 device specifics!

As described where? Anyway, this sentence is more or less only important for the C7x0 and C1000 since on the C3K it's pretty unlikely people will repartition the flash memory - after all there's only 5MB free there.

From memory, the partitioning is like ~100MB for hdd1, ~300MB for hdd2 and 3.6G for hdd3. The exact numbers don't count, important is just that you have at least 50 MB for hdd1 since that's what becomes the new root partition with OpenZaurus. OpenZaurus doesn't repartition the harddisk nor does it touch hdd2 and hdd3 - this also means that you can test OpenZaurus without worries since you can easily go back to the SharpROM using the Sharp provided files.

[echo6]

The instructions are quite specific about repartitioning,  i.e. dont do it and I wasn't sure if mine had been altered by Shirtpocket.   Having looked more closely I can see that they haven't the other thing that was throwing was my 4Gb was sitting on /dev/hdd,  and I'm pretty sure the OZ installer script writes to /dev/hda.   I've resolved that by remembering to take out the SD card!

Are english Sharp ROMS easily available?   How feasible is it then for me to backup what my current install so that I can revert back to it if needed?