C3000 Install

[slackwaresupport]

ok the readme says
mv pivotboot-image-spitz-20050428205242.rootfs.img              initrd.bin
mv opie-hdimage1.tgz                                            hdimage1.tgz
mv zImage-spitz-20050428091110.bin                              zimage.bin
mv updater.sh                                                   updater.sh

Install using the instructions from http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c3000/

NOTE: If you flash with a CF card, remove it in the second it prints 'rebooting system...' or else it won't boot. Also,
never boot with a CF memory card sticked into your C3000 - it won't boot. This is a known issue and will
hopefully be fixed in the final 3.5.4 release.


but in the c3000 directory there are 2 .imgs

bootstrap-image-spitz-20050428091110.rootfs.img
and
pivotboot-image-spitz-20050428205242.rootfs.img

so which do you use?

[slackwaresupport]

also when i go by the instructions and i have an install up and going, it doesnt utilize all of the harddrive.. what gives?  is the release not full yet?

[Mickeyl]

What defines a "full" release? There are 3000 packages in the feed which you can install. The scope of this release was to make it work and to define a stable base on which we can work. It's not yet finalized which packages are going into the root filesystem.

P.S. when the instructions tell about pivotboot-image, just use pivotboot-image and don't care about bootstrap

[slackwaresupport]

ok so i use the pivot, its installed, it doesnt even use the harddrive. and when i install programs, ive had it loose its mind 3 times.  after a while of use, nothing comes up, and when i use a console and try to do ls it says, command not found, like its loosing the basic programs from the install.

[Mickeyl]

I'm sorry, I can't quite follow you. "It doesn't even use the harddrive" - sounds like your hdimage1.tgz wasn't flashed, because the pivot-boot image runs an emergency shell when it doesn't recognize a harddrive to pivot_root into.

[slackwaresupport]

the biggest partition.  this is what i have on a default install.

Disk /dev/hda: 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/hda1               1         204      102784+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             205        1020      411264   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1021        7936     3485664   83  Linux


root@spitz:~# mount
/dev/hda1 on /media/realroot type jffs2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
ramfs on /dev type ramfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
tmpfs on /var type tmpfs (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)


the biggest part is not even mounted anywhere.

[Mickeyl]

Ah this is what you mean. Yeah, they're not mounted in the official image. Just add 'em to the fstab.