New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

[Snappy]

In "CardFS HowTo", under

Re-Installing cardfs without flashing

    If you have messed up your SD card, you can easily re-install the cardfs.

        * Copy cardfs-$whatever.bin into /mnt/ram, /mnt/cf or /mnt/card
        * Quit the Opie GUI (Settings / Quit)
        * Log in to the console as user root (no password)
        * Run "rm /etc/.cardfs_installed"
        * Run "cardfs_install.sh

the 2nd last command should read

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"rm /etc/.carfs_installed"
There should not be a "d" ... carfs_installed and not carDfs_installed.
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Heh, bad copy'n paste job, take two. Fixed! (It should indeed be cardfs_installed.sh)
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Cool CoreDump!

btw, I seem to have problem installing CardFS on my 512MB A-Data SD card. Its new, rated at 150x (read) and its just giving errors when the cardfs install runs. I tried like 10 times yesterday ... both manually fdisking and formatting the card and letting the install do the job. Both resulted in error.

Just 10mins ago, I took an old (very old, like 5yrs old!) 64MB CF card. Pop the cardfs###.bin into the SD card (now formated in vfat) and intending to use the 64MB CF as the destination for cardFS instead. Voila, it works the first time. Is there something wrong with my config? Now I have the cardfs installed and mounted on the CF card fine and running well.

Anyway I can change some settings to do the same on the SD card?

The SD card is working fine on XP (via card reader), on a PocketPC and in vfat format, works fine on the hentges rom on the Z5500. When I fdisk and format it for ext2, it just keep having errors. Any ideas? Pls help ...  

[dbindner]

Nice work on the ROM Hentges

Has anyone got the cardfs to work from a compactflash card?  I'm installing the latest Hentges T3 ROM for a friend on his SL-5500 (256MB CF card), but I just can't seem to make it work.  OPIE boots up fine but only the non-cardfs apps are available (eg. konsole plus a few preferences and applets).  The same ROM images work fine on my 5500 where I'm using a 256MB SD card for cardfs.

Any pointers as to debugging the problem?  I can't seem to find how the cardfs system is mounted.. is it a pivot_root ? I did a quick scan through the init.d scripts but nothing jumped out at me.
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I can't say with authority, but I think I have been successful by opening a konsole and typing

# ipkg-link mount /media/cf

I was planning to add that to an /etc/init.d script so it takes on reboot.  I am not an expert; I've only been doing OZ for about 4 days.  I am using the Hentges ROM on a 5500 though.

[juice]

Right, ipkg-link is a pile of shit

The problem was that I left the SD card in (and it had a cardfs installation).  The ipkg-link tool for some reason found the cardfs filesystem on the SD card instead of the CF card (despite the fact I specified /media/cf on the command line).

Removing the SD card before running ipkg-link seems to have solved the problem (mostly).  Hopefully someone else can learn from this piece of advice

Thanks to everyone for help.
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I'll have a look  
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I've checked the script and didn't find anything that could cause this problem
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Yeah, the script is working just fine.  The problem was with the ipkg-link program.  The script ran:

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ipkg-link mount /media/cfHowever, when the ipkg-link program ran, it picked up the cardfs installation I already had existing in /media/card and used that instead of the brand new one I had under /media/cf.  The problem was resolved by manually calling ipkg-link with the same parameters, but with the SD card ejected.

I don't know who's responsible for ipkg-link but it may need patching?

[CoreDump]

Yeah, the script is working just fine.  The problem was with the ipkg-link program.  The script ran:

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ipkg-link mount /media/cfHowever, when the ipkg-link program ran, it picked up the cardfs installation I already had existing in /media/card and used that instead of the brand new one I had under /media/cf.  The problem was resolved by manually calling ipkg-link with the same parameters, but with the SD card ejected.

I don't know who's responsible for ipkg-link but it may need patching?
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Ahem, I've rewritten some parts for OZ3.5.3, will have a look.

[Snappy]

Hi there,

Hengtes rom is now running smoothly on my collie, thanks to a Sandisk 512MB SD card that I swapped with someone for.

I got the SD partitioned into 2 parts: 1. ext2 2. Fat16. Its working fine now, but the Fat16 needs to be formatted. Anyway for me to do it in Hengtes? Where can I download the feed for mkfs.msdos? Thanks!

[Greg2]

Where can I download the feed for mkfs.msdos? Thanks!

I just answered this in your other post... It's the dosfstools ipk in the base feed.

Please don't double post.  

Greg

[Snappy]

Where can I download the feed for mkfs.msdos? Thanks!

I just answered this in your other post... It's the dosfstools ipk in the base feed.

Please don't double post.  

Greg
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Thanks and roger that!

[vputz]

Another quick question on this release.

I read earlier in the thread how to get prboom working on my Akita with a few command-line options.  Any equivalent for snes9x?  I have tried a couple of roms from the command line, and I get sound and music, but just a blank screen.  I wasn't sure if there was a QtEmbedded-0.spec I needed to write, or what...

Other than that, fantastic ROM, a real pleasure to have a Z up and running again with OZ.  Thanks!

-->VPutz

[tombraider]

Another quick question on this release.

I read earlier in the thread how to get prboom working on my Akita with a few command-line options.  Any equivalent for snes9x?  I have tried a couple of roms from the command line, and I get sound and music, but just a blank screen.  I wasn't sure if there was a QtEmbedded-0.spec I needed to write, or what...

Other than that, fantastic ROM, a real pleasure to have a Z up and running again with OZ.  Thanks!

-->VPutz
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I have a collie and the only rom I've been able to get to work with the Hentges ROM install is Castlevania - Dracula X (U).zip which I got fromhttp://www.rom-world.com/toproms.php

With the collie it is just too difficult to try to work the keys to play the game...at least I'm not coordinated enough to do it,  but then I'm 63 years old so if you have young reflexes and an akita with a different keyboard orientation,  it will probably work.  

[Snappy]

Tomb, I have my Z5500 installed with Hentges OZ 3.5.3 Opie 64-0 and somehow I cannot install apps like Opera 7.55 from my CF properly.

The installation runs successfully but I do not see a link on Opie and when I find the binary and try to execute, it does not work ...

[tombraider]

Tomb, I have my Z5500 installed with Hentges OZ 3.5.3 Opie 64-0 and somehow I cannot install apps like Opera 7.55 from my CF properly.

The installation runs successfully but I do not see a link on Opie and when I find the binary and try to execute, it does not work ...
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Oh,  yeah,  I forgot,  I think I usually wound up copying the ipk to my sd card in order to install.  I didn't think that was a general problem;  I just thought it was a peculiarity of my configuration.

[Snappy]

Tomb, I have my Z5500 installed with Hentges OZ 3.5.3 Opie 64-0 and somehow I cannot install apps like Opera 7.55 from my CF properly.

The installation runs successfully but I do not see a link on Opie and when I find the binary and try to execute, it does not work ...
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Oh,  yeah,  I forgot,  I think I usually wound up copying the ipk to my sd card in order to install.  I didn't think that was a general problem;  I just thought it was a peculiarity of my configuration.
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So, => if I install using the ipk in the SD card instead of the CF, it would work? Thanks!

[charlie]

Still love Hentges but latest release Segmentation faults on Opie-Sheet, which I would prefer to use.

Any hints?

Chas

[Snappy]

Just an update, I got the Opera thingie fixed with help from Greg on another thread.

Again on the note of compatibility, installation of IRK on Hentges rom do not show the IRK option in the handwriting "tab". Do I need to run it with compat libraries too?

[tombraider]

Just an update, I got the Opera thingie fixed with help from Greg on another thread.

Again on the note of compatibility, installation of IRK on Hentges rom do not show the IRK option in the handwriting "tab". Do I need to run it with compat libraries too?
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Do you mean the irda beaming?  There's an icon on the taskbar for that (if you expand the bar to show the clipboard).  I got the beaming to work with my other Zaurus - beaming recipes from zeecookbook from one zaurus to the other.  The only trouble is that it renames the files to .dat files and so at the other end you have the bother of having to rename them one by one.