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SadaraX

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Starting Debian On Zaurus Sl-c3100
« on: January 15, 2006, 05:49:08 am »
I am running the latest version of Cacko on my Zaurus sl-c3100, but I have installed debian onto my harddrive in a very standard and normal way. By this I mean, I downloaded the zaurus-big-v0.18.tgz, extracted it to my /hdd3/debroot folder, ran the postinst.sh. I then removed the INSTALL.d/ directory, as I no longer needed it.

For more information, I followed the instructions here in the section "Installing Debian GNU/Linux"
http://wiki.debian.org/?PocketWorkstationXQT
The only thing I changed was I installed onto my harddrive, not my flash drive.

However I cannot get anything to start. I run the command 'Vncserver' and then 'Fbvnc' but I now get errors, and before nothing happened. When I run 'Vncserver' I get the message:

chroot: cannot execute zvncserver: Too many levels of symbolic links

and of course 'Fbvnc' will not work if the previous command will not work.

I have had a lot of trouble in the past with just getting the vnc GUI session to start after I get debian installed. I really just need some help actually starting the debian system that I installed.  

I don't care if I have to reinstall, or what I need to do. If someone has a good idea on how to install debian onto their z3100 and then actually start a GUI session, please tell me. Thanks.

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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2006, 09:32:58 am »
definately reinstall, my problems with the debian chroot install were fbvnc/Fbvnc related
SL-C3100 current: Stock/Tetsu 18h
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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2006, 10:45:36 am »
why I said reinstall is the symlink msg's, I find those quite "odd"
SL-C3100 current: Stock/Tetsu 18h
Socket BT CF Card
Linksys WCF-12 802.11b/Cheapie USB Ethernet

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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2006, 10:33:01 am »
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why I said reinstall is the symlink msg's, I find those quite "odd"
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Just got a 3100 and Im working on getting this working too... is your partition formatted ext3? if not then you will have big problems with the symlinks IIRC. I'll post more when i get this working on my new Z.
* C3100 with Cacko 1.23 and debian (pocketworkstation) - 1Gb SD / 1Gb CF / Prism Wifi
* C-860 with Cacko 1.21b/pdaXrom dualboot with 256Mb CF / 512 Mb SD / Prism Wifi
* SL-5500 with Cacko rom with 128Mb SD home on SD / 96 Mb CF

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« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2006, 02:04:07 pm »
check out thegrinder.ws for more details
SL-C3100 current: Stock/Tetsu 18h
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2006, 02:22:15 pm »
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why I said reinstall is the symlink msg's, I find those quite "odd"
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=111035\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Just got a 3100 and Im working on getting this working too... is your partition formatted ext3? if not then you will have big problems with the symlinks IIRC. I'll post more when i get this working on my new Z.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=111152\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

The installed harddrive should be ext2/3, but I do not know about the non-4GB harddrive section. I will have to check. I'm going to give this install another try soon and we will see what happens.

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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2006, 02:22:45 pm »
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check out thegrinder.ws for more details
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=111174\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Is there any particular section I should be looking for?

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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2006, 03:55:45 pm »
i'm interested to hear if anyone has cacko/vnc-debian working on a 3100.

In the meantime Xqt should work, as should pdaxrom using pdaxrom's x server (though this approach has always seems kinda redundant to me).
**3100 Zubuntu Jaunty,(working on Cacko dualboot), 16G A-Data internal CF, 4G SD, Ambicom WL-1100C Cf, linksys usb ethernet,  BelkinF8T020 BT card, Belkin F8U1500-E Ir kbd, mini targus usb mouse, rechargeble AC/DC powered USB hub, psp cables and battery extenders.

**6000l  Tetsuized Sharprom, installed on internal flash only 1G sd, 2G cf