Help! OZ Rom won\'t install on SL-5500

[avel]

i have tried 3.2 amd 3.3.5 . I have a 2.2GB Microstor microdrive. does OZ not support them?

[VeeDubb]

If it\'s 2.2 gig, it CAN\"T be formated fat16, it MUST be formette fat32, ntfs, ext2 or with some other files system.

Problem is, the card you use to flash, MUST BE formated fat16.

you have two options.
1.  reformat your card Fat16 (which I don\'t think is possible with a volume that large)
2.  Buy a regualr 32mb flash card, which is only $15 these days on the internet.


Just so we\'re clear, the Zaurus handle 2.gig micro drives just fine, it\'s just that the flashing software only reccognizes fat16.

If there was anything you didn\'t understand, just ask.

[avel]

it is formatted with fat16, i posted earlier asking if i should do fat32 with it to get the extra 200mb but decided against it. I do everything that it says to do on the OZ site, I have even left it alone for 30min to make sure it flashed it and it did not work. I can think of no reason why it shouldn\'t work. I have had my Zaurus since Tuesday and have flashed it well over 10 times with the OZ rom to no avail. i can only think that maybe the files get renamed when they are downloaded to my computer which runs xp pro, like the extension is changed or something, but everytime i check it the image and bin file have the correct names. i don\'t know, i might just do like you said and buy a small 32mb compactflash soley for flashing.

[Greg2]

The FAT16 file system can only read up to 2 GB, you will have to fdisk a single 1950 to 1953 MB partition only on your microdrive and then format the partition FAT16. Make sure you understand fdisk first, do a search it\'s important. Then later when you need it you can remove the partition.

Greg

[VeeDubb]

Yeah, I would get a new card.  I didn\'t think fat32 would handle 2.2gig, and there\'s a good chance that haveing more than 1 partition will cause a problem.

Also, you do know that the files already have the wrong names when you downlaod them right?

your initrd.bin will probably be named right, but not for sure.  It needs to be initrd.bin  with no other charactersin the name at all, and no caps at all, just initrd.bin

The zImage file is the same way.  It almost always comes with a tonn of extra version info in the name and a .bin extension.  it needs to be renamed to zImage with no cap except the i and no punctuation, version info or file extension.  Just zImage  6 total characters.

You may find it very hard to verify the correct file extensions on a winXP box.  Somewher there an option to disply file extensions, though it\'s been to long since I used windows to tell you where.  

If that isn\'t selected, it\'s virtualy impossible with windows to change zImage-bunch-of-useless-version-info.bin to zImage

Your best bet s to put it ont he Z, and open up the konsole program and enter the two following commands.

cd /mnt/cf/

ls

That will list all the files on yor card.

[avel]

thank you soo much! All this time the zimage file was zImage.bin
Once again thanks, you\'ve helped me again.

One more thing where can I find a list of commands and what they do, for the Zaurus.  And no, I don\'t know linux, but I am trying very hard to learn.

[Richjn]

I have named all my kernels zImage.bin and they install fine. So does sash with the Cacko kernels and ditto with OZ. I\'ve never tried to install one without a .bin extension so can\'t comment on whether they install or not.

EDIT: Oops didn\'t read the header properly my comments refer to 7x0 not 5x0

Richard

[Greg2]

One more thing where can I find a list of commands and what they do, for the Zaurus.  And no, I don\'t know linux, but I am trying very hard to learn.

Here is one that has been updated:
Linux Shortcuts and Commands (will work on Zaurus)
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/lnag_commands.html

Greg