Repartitioning Sl-5500

[sentinel]

Hi,

I'm not quite sure how to resize the root partition on the SL-5500, and if this is possible at all.
I ask because it is not possible for me to run applications such as Apache from the root directory without freeing up more space (I can run everything else from a CF Card).

Most of the instructions I can find refer to the C-Series machines, not the SL machines.

One post stated it would be necessary to first flash with the Guyhelm ROM.

However, is it possible to do this from the service menu.

Can anyone state which is the best method ?


Thanks
Neil.

[sentinel]

I just wanted to add that I tried flashing back to other ROMs, and it nearly bricked the Z. Luckily, I managed to flash back to the pdaX many hours later after several attempts.

Therefore, it looks like pdaXrom is my only option (which is not a bad option), but I'm wondering how to get apache / PHP running on this device - i.e. on a CF card.

Am I just attempting the impossible on this device ?

[karlto]

Does the pdaXrom installer for the SL5500 not have an option to resize the root partition?

Assuming ipkg-link works correctly, you should just be able to install on the CF card anyway, and all that is installed on the root partition are symlinks. Perhaps the /etc stuff needs manual intervention?

[sentinel]

There is no option to resize the root partition - it just flashes it - which means there is precious little space left on the root partition, which means it must be used extremely carefully.

I guess I'll have to try and hack the scripts in /etc, or try and compile my own copy.

[sentinel]

Another small query I have is that I cannot run the 'mkfs' command on the 5500 pdax.

i.e. mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1, mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1, mkfs.vfat /dev/hda1

always returns something like 'mkfs.ext2: command not found'


I'm wondering if this can be installed from one of the packages ? I previously installed a lot of the packages, and the 'mkfs' (or mke2fs) command was never found.

AAgghhh....

[pgas]

'mkfs.ext2: command not found'
I'm wondering if this can be installed from one of the packages ?

in e2fsprogs?

Disclaimer: I don't know exactly how all this work so what I say might not be correct...

The 5500 is not the same beast at the other zaurus, I'm not sure that "resizing the root partition" makes sense on a 5500 because of the very small flash and because part (all) of the os is in the ram. (As I don't own a 5500 I don't know the exact details, where does / resides?)

Maybe it's possible to do a pivot root on a sd card or cf card like it's done for the C3000?

In any case I don't think it's something trivial (like you proably need another image).

Maybe you should try to pm VoiDeR on this forum,  there is a kernel configuration for other rom to have all the system on a card and he was asking for it, maybe he has done or found something like this?