dump ramdisk to cf?

[Stubear]

Dump the su command and su before you run the script. I don\'t think that the busybox su can handle multiline commands.

Stu

[RichS]

\"hmm so weird... especially when it works if i just copy and paste script in manually...\"

That \"bad interpreter\" message is what I got when I tried to create a script with the built-in texteditor. It doesn\'t work. I then used a working script, ddeleted everything but the first line, saved it and that worked. After setting the permissions to execute! If you used the built-in editor and created from scratch, that may be your problem.

[shadowkwarrior]

omg, it worked!!!!!!!! thank u!!!! wow i hate that stupid text editor now. is there anyway to start by scratch?

[lardman]

Use vi, or grab dos2unix from killefiz and run that on your Windows-ised text file/script.


Si

[RichS]

pico and nano are also available at zsi. I haven\'t tried nano yet but I\'ve always liked pico for small text files and edits and it works fine on the Z.

What I\'d like to see is a fixed textedit for the Z so that when I select \"open in text editor\", I get an editor I can use, and one that might have \'search\'...

[doseas]

BTW, try using the Backup/Restore applet on the Sharp ROM.  It creates a tar file of everything in writable memory (except /var, if I remember correctly).  It can write the tar file to either SD or CF.  I use it all the time to backup my system & even have used it after ROM upgrades.  Because it writes a tar file (but doesn\'t give the file a .tar extension), you can always grab a couple of files from the backup, if you need them.

[shadowkwarrior]

ah, hmm ya ive tried that, but i tend to not trust it very much as the backup is usually ~150KB and i know ive put more stuff in there, right now w/ the script that backs up the /home directory my backups are ~25MB uncompressed, and ~4MB compressed, 25MB is because i have a 16MB swapfile (i install rest of apps to a SD card, but cant put /home on SD because my simpletech card screws up during resume, and i have no idea how to fix), theres probably quite a bit of stuff i didnt need to backup, but this way just about everything i can change is backed up and after i flash i can get all my settings and applications back in <5mins, alot faster than installing all the apps again and changing things to how i like it.

[RichS]

That\'s odd. I use the Sharp backup on my 5600. Although I can\'t understand the sysinfo memory readings at all (I install 2 megs of stuff, mem doesn\'t change, or by 10K), I supposedly have 15 to 17 megs of stuff loaded into ram. My backups now are about 21 megs. Looking through the tar, it sure looks like it backs up everything...