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« Reply #75 on: June 08, 2006, 06:13:04 am »
FYI: RC6 is the last RC before the final version. The remaining problems will get fixed via the "upgrades" feed.

If you see any serious problems with this image, please let me know.
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« Reply #76 on: June 08, 2006, 09:51:42 am »
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FYI: RC6 is the last RC before the final version. The remaining problems will get fixed via the "upgrades" feed.

If you see any serious problems with this image, please let me know.
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Hi, sorry to sound dense, I'm still new to OZ and how it works, what's the "upgrades" feed and how do you apply things from there, am assuming there are instructions somewhere?

I'll update to the latest image at the weekend and see if the suspend error I mentioned earlier happens again.
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« Reply #77 on: June 08, 2006, 11:59:20 am »
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FYI: RC6 is the last RC before the final version. The remaining problems will get fixed via the "upgrades" feed.

If you see any serious problems with this image, please let me know.
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Hi, sorry to sound dense, I'm still new to OZ and how it works, what's the "upgrades" feed and how do you apply things from there, am assuming there are instructions somewhere?

I'll update to the latest image at the weekend and see if the suspend error I mentioned earlier happens again.
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The upgrade feed is a special ipkg feed in which..errr..upgraded packages (ie: bugfixes) are placed. They can be installed with "ipkg update ; ipkg upgrade"
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« Reply #78 on: June 08, 2006, 08:56:38 pm »
so ... => upgrade feed allows OZ/hentges to be updated via a ipk package instead of having to reflash. Am I right?

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So far I've tried out the newer oz/gpe hentges rom and its pretty good. Fast, reliable and does most of what I need/want.

I believe the earlier restarting issue could be a one off case, but I would need to retest to verify.

About the partition and Sharp default partitions, can oz or hentges run some scripts before hand to repart the internal storage correctly if so required? That may help resolve some of the instability issues if incorrect partition sizes is the cause of it.
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« Reply #79 on: June 09, 2006, 04:07:31 am »
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The upgrade feed is a special ipkg feed in which..errr..upgraded packages (ie: bugfixes) are placed. They can be installed with "ipkg update ; ipkg upgrade"
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And this requires having the Z connected to the net? And it knows where the feed is?
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« Reply #80 on: June 09, 2006, 04:09:30 am »
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About the partition and Sharp default partitions, can oz or hentges run some scripts before hand to repart the internal storage correctly if so required? That may help resolve some of the instability issues if incorrect partition sizes is the cause of it.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=130467\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

If that's possible, that would be a great idea, cause it would also clear away any rubbish left behind by any other installs :-)
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« Reply #81 on: June 09, 2006, 02:35:03 pm »
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The upgrade feed is a special ipkg feed in which..errr..upgraded packages (ie: bugfixes) are placed. They can be installed with "ipkg update ; ipkg upgrade"
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=130412\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

And this requires having the Z connected to the net? And it knows where the feed is?
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Yes an internet connection is required. The feed is already configured. Hentges uses the same "upgrades" feed than OZ 3.5.4.*
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« Reply #82 on: June 09, 2006, 02:44:55 pm »
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About the partition and Sharp default partitions, can oz or hentges run some scripts before hand to repart the internal storage correctly if so required? That may help resolve some of the instability issues if incorrect partition sizes is the cause of it.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=130467\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

If that's possible, that would be a great idea, cause it would also clear away any rubbish left behind by any other installs :-)
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Repartitioning the flash would have to be done with updater.sh just like pdaXrom does it (or so I hear).  I had a look at (OZ's) updater.sh in the past and it wasn't a lovely sight  

I would rather not touch this script in its current form....

One way for OZ to work around the partitioning issues experienced by users coming from pdaXrom (and probably others) would be to rework the script to simply "format" the root partition and tar -xzf a rootfs tarball into it. With this method the partition sizes wouldn't matter at all as long as the root partition is large enough.

I don't even know if it could be done this way in a stable way but I guess it would be possible.

As for "wiping old stuff" from the image on a reflash this would basically mean rm -rf /home/* and would be trivial to implement during first-boot after flashing.

Hentges already allows you to remove old Opie or GPE settings from /home/$USER which I thought was enough, but yeah you have a point and I'll look into it.

It probably won't make it into the final "T1" release tho.
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« Reply #83 on: June 09, 2006, 08:16:35 pm »
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About the partition and Sharp default partitions, can oz or hentges run some scripts before hand to repart the internal storage correctly if so required? That may help resolve some of the instability issues if incorrect partition sizes is the cause of it.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=130467\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

If that's possible, that would be a great idea, cause it would also clear away any rubbish left behind by any other installs :-)
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=130494\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Repartitioning the flash would have to be done with updater.sh just like pdaXrom does it (or so I hear).  I had a look at (OZ's) updater.sh in the past and it wasn't a lovely sight  

I would rather not touch this script in its current form....

One way for OZ to work around the partitioning issues experienced by users coming from pdaXrom (and probably others) would be to rework the script to simply "format" the root partition and tar -xzf a rootfs tarball into it. With this method the partition sizes wouldn't matter at all as long as the root partition is large enough.

I don't even know if it could be done this way in a stable way but I guess it would be possible.

As for "wiping old stuff" from the image on a reflash this would basically mean rm -rf /home/* and would be trivial to implement during first-boot after flashing.

Hentges already allows you to remove old Opie or GPE settings from /home/$USER which I thought was enough, but yeah you have a point and I'll look into it.

It probably won't make it into the final "T1" release tho.
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CoreDump, is the original updater.sh script available somewhere? I'll be happy to help 'clean' it up. Granted, I may need someone to compile it to binary later on as I have no idea (at the moment) on how to get it done.

And thanks for all the great work! About the changes making to T1, I'm already grateful that you are taking the time for all the hard work!  So cheers!
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« Reply #84 on: June 10, 2006, 06:39:09 am »
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CoreDump, is the original updater.sh script available somewhere? I'll be happy to help 'clean' it up. Granted, I may need someone to compile it to binary later on as I have no idea (at the moment) on how to get it done.

And thanks for all the great work! About the changes making to T1, I'm already grateful that you are taking the time for all the hard work!  So cheers!
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The script is available [a href=\"http://oz.hentges.net/openembedded/org.openembedded.oz354x/packages/zaurus-updater/akita/]from here[/url]
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« Reply #85 on: June 10, 2006, 11:50:03 am »
tried the new image and had an error

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Configuring update-modules
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep for writing

This is after flashing it over a trisoft NAND backup.
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« Reply #86 on: June 15, 2006, 11:11:17 am »
just checking if anyone knows how this is going?

Have gone back to the earlier version, still loving it, can't wait for the stable version.
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« Reply #87 on: June 15, 2006, 08:46:44 pm »
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CoreDump, is the original updater.sh script available somewhere? I'll be happy to help 'clean' it up. Granted, I may need someone to compile it to binary later on as I have no idea (at the moment) on how to get it done.

And thanks for all the great work! About the changes making to T1, I'm already grateful that you are taking the time for all the hard work!  So cheers!
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
The script is available [a href=\"http://oz.hentges.net/openembedded/org.openembedded.oz354x/packages/zaurus-updater/akita/]from here[/url]
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=130641\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Coredump, thanks and I ran through the script ... and ... I dunno if I'm used to messy code or if the script is already pretty structured  ... but the only changes I did so far is to reindent some part of the main loop.

See the attached updater.sh.

Potentially, we could insert a query at the start before the actually flashing to ask if the user wants to 1) Repartition the flash or 2) clean out the user part or 3) Both.

We could have a recommended partition option or a custom partition option.

I'll sound off the Cacko or pdaXrom folks to see if I could "borrow" some of the updater.sh script to give oz flashing some simple menu options.

Comments?
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« Reply #88 on: June 16, 2006, 02:09:38 am »
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CoreDump, is the original updater.sh script available somewhere? I'll be happy to help 'clean' it up. Granted, I may need someone to compile it to binary later on as I have no idea (at the moment) on how to get it done.

And thanks for all the great work! About the changes making to T1, I'm already grateful that you are taking the time for all the hard work!  So cheers!
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
The script is available [a href=\"http://oz.hentges.net/openembedded/org.openembedded.oz354x/packages/zaurus-updater/akita/]from here[/url]
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=130641\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Coredump, thanks and I ran through the script ... and ... I dunno if I'm used to messy code or if the script is already pretty structured  ... but the only changes I did so far is to reindent some part of the main loop.

See the attached updater.sh.

Potentially, we could insert a query at the start before the actually flashing to ask if the user wants to 1) Repartition the flash or 2) clean out the user part or 3) Both.

We could have a recommended partition option or a custom partition option.

I'll sound off the Cacko or pdaXrom folks to see if I could "borrow" some of the updater.sh script to give oz flashing some simple menu options.

Comments?
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That would be nice. Please keep in mind that the current flashing process breaks horribly if you repartition the flash drive. You'd need to account for that.
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« Reply #89 on: June 16, 2006, 12:07:21 pm »
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tried the new image and had an error

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Configuring update-modules
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep for writing

This is after flashing it over a trisoft NAND backup.
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Tried this again, redownloaded everything, but still doesn't work on my C1000. Any ideas anyone?

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