Add/remove Progs, Install To Hdd3?

[Jon_J]

I know everyone is going to say, the hdd3 on a C3100 is FAT
But the installer in Qtopia lets you install many programs onto a FAT SD/CF card.
Why not onto the FAT hdd3?
I would really like to be able to use the GUI installer to install progs to my 3.7GB free hdd3.

I've enclosed a hastily paint shop pro'ed image of the dialog I would like to see in the package installer.

Is there a method to enable this, (Permanently)?
Thank you,
Jon

[Meanie]

I know everyone is going to say, the hdd3 on a C3100 is FAT
But the installer in Qtopia lets you install many programs onto a FAT SD/CF card.
Why not onto the FAT hdd3?
I would really like to be able to use the GUI installer to install progs to my 3.7GB free hdd3.

I've enclosed a hastily paint shop pro'ed image of the dialog I would like to see in the package installer.

Is there a method to enable this, (Permanently)?
Thank you,
Jon
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This is not possible unless you have the source code for that app and afaik, sharp did not provide the source code for it.

[jpmatrix]

would a simple solution be to find the actual install directory (could it be /hdd2/Applications) then move it to hdd3 and symlink it ?
ln -s /hdd3/Applications /hdd2/Applications

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[Jon_J]

Seems like a waste of a good resource. I would like to install my programs on the hard drive and keep data files on the CF/SD cards.
Meanie, At first, I mistakenly thought ipktools was going to do this.
Isn't there a way to "trick" the installer into thinking the hdd3 is actually the CF card?
That would work for me. I don't install anything to my CF cards.
jpmatrix, on a C3100, there are no programs installed onto the hard drive. Again, more wasted space.
3 kb of files on hdd1
101 kb of files on hdd2

Jon

[Mjolinor]

Why can't you just repartition the disc and make 2 big and 3 small?

Pilock that I am, you could on a 3000 but not a 3100 I think.

[Meanie]

would a simple solution be to find the actual install directory (could it be /hdd2/Applications) then move it to hdd3 and symlink it ?
ln -s /hdd3/Applications /hdd2/Applications

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You could indeed do this on a C3000 and since apps get installed to hdd2 on the C3000, you could make hdd2 bigger and make hdd3 smaller.

On the C3100, however, apps get installed to the internal flash, so you can do something similar, ie ln -s /hdd3/Applications /home/zaurus/Applications

Unfortunately, applications don't actually get installed under the Applications directory (except for those that Sharp wrote)

So you would have to create several directories on hdd3 and symlink them back, ie /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/share, /usr/local, /opt/QtPalmtop/lib, /opt/QtPalmtop/bin, /opt/QtPalmtop/share, etc...

[Jon_J]

How do applications get installed to a CF or SD card? (Compatable ones, that is).
Why not just "make" the Qtopia installer/uninstaller, "think" that hdd3 is a CF card?
As I understand, some applications do install to FAT formatted CF/SD cards. Why not "fool" the installer to think hdd3 is CF?

Meanie, even if I created those 7 directories you mentioned and all the links, the Qtopia install/uninstaller still would not recognise hdd3 as an option to install to, would it?

Thank you. I hope my dumbfounded reply didn't tick anyone off.

EDIT: I just looked at the memory applet on the taskbar. It allows you to create a swapfile in 3 different places: [HDD] [CF] [SD].
My 32mb swapfile is located in /hdd3/documents/

On another subject: Whatever happened to the "Newbie" forum that used to exist here?
I read some old posts from 2004, that mentioned a "Newbie" subforum.

Jon