Hi all,
Thanks for all your great work so far. I'm getting alot of great use out of my Z
On to the other stuff. I have an SL-5500 with 512 CF, 1GB SD, and Linksys CF card. I'm using the 3.5.4-rc image with Opie. I'm using the SD card with the network card and ssh'ing over to run commands.
- Install
The install went pretty well. Flashing instructions from (
http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/not-in-men...l-5600-revised/ ) worked very well. It'd be nice to have that linked from the main page, instead of having to find that link in the comments.
- Configuration
The ipkg feeds weren't valid, but I read around and found where to update them from. My file now looks like this (I left out the parts I haven't changed) :
lists_dir ext /mnt/card/.altroot/var/lib/ipkg
src/gz machine http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...upgrades/collie
src/gz machine http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op.../3.5.3/upgrades
src/gz base http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/base
src/gz libs http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/libs
src/gz console http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....3/feed/console
src/gz devel http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....5.3/feed/devel
src/gz opie http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/opie
src/gz opie http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op.../machine/collie
dest root /
#dest cf /media/cf/packages/
dest sd /media/card/packages/
#dest ram /media/ram/packages/
I added the "machine" feed as well as the "upgrades" feeds (not sure that I need the upgrades?).
I moved /opt/ to /mnt/card/.altroot/opt/ and updated the symlinks from root.
I installed konqueror-embedded to my SD card using
ipkg -d sd -force-depends install konqueror-embedded
, because the package doesn't seem to understand that I have a newer libqpe2 installed (the package seems to want a libqpe2 newer than the snapshot, but I have that). Then I got opie to recognize the package source by running
ipkg-link mount /mnt/card/packages
and refreshing the package list from the opie GUI.
Now, I'm trying to install the media player and I can't seem to find a libxine1. I've seen the thread here (
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...iaplayer2&st=15 ), specifically in reference to this package, but I can't seem to find it in any of the feeds. Help?
In general, I'm very happy now that I've gotten this far. However, finding out how to do all this has been a bit painful.
I'd like to contribute better documentation (forums are rather painful for documentation, and the blog doesn't appear to be updated often) so I found the thread on docs (
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=10775&st=30 ), but it appears to be dead.
I'd highly recommend someone in the OZ / OE projects blessing a particular wiki and allowing users to update that. I'll volunteer to move the docs over to a wiki. This allows decentralized control over the documentation so people can update as they figure things out.
So, I'm pretty happy with all this but I'm sort of stuck as to where to go. I think having a standard place for docs, FAQ, and other HOWTOs outside the forums is a good start to allowing semi-technical folks to scratch their own itches.
I found that it took me a good week just to find enough information to cobble together to get konqueror installed. Most of my friend's with Z's don't use them anymore because it's non-trivial to get all of the good stuff you guys are doing on to the device. I'd love to get them back here and productive
Anyway, let me know if I'm missing something with the above questions, and I'd love to get some feedback on the docs.
Thanks again.
