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« on: May 17, 2006, 12:00:51 am »
Okay,
after a long hiatus, I am back to trying to get my little z up and running.  I have a 8gb CF card that I will replace the 4gb md card.  The card is hosed, and I don't have a back up.  So what 3 partitions should I put the 8gb card into?  what sizes of partitions, and should I have one vfat for my windows xp machine to read?  I need some recommendations here.  Do I even need that for openzaurus? I have only used cacko in the past, but for my zc3k, I am thinking that openzaurus (spitz, I think), will be more stable because it just uses the harddrive to install on.   Thanks, any advice would be great!

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« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2006, 12:23:59 am »
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Okay,
after a long hiatus, I am back to trying to get my little z up and running.  I have a 8gb CF card that I will replace the 4gb md card.  The card is hosed, and I don't have a back up.  So what 3 partitions should I put the 8gb card into?  what sizes of partitions, and should I have one vfat for my windows xp machine to read?  I need some recommendations here.  Do I even need that for openzaurus? I have only used cacko in the past, but for my zc3k, I am thinking that openzaurus (spitz, I think), will be more stable because it just uses the harddrive to install on.   Thanks, any advice would be great!

Lareya
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boy, you are in for it.

I know how to do it myself but I wonder how you will fair, i spent 8 hours unbricking my c3200.  but ill get you started.

here is one usefull topic
[a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18636]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18636[/url]

here are the image downloads
http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-...iginal-backups/

and a few notes....

fdisk utilities to /dev/hdd3  

df  for finding out what partitions and disks are available

su for super user.

one last thing.  you need to go into terminal mode with d+b.  you can find out more in the trisoft pdf file.  c3000qse.pdf
http://www.trisoft.de/pdf/c3000qse.pdf

i live in southern california, maybee i can be of some assistance.
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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2006, 02:31:31 am »
I'm no expert, but I have managed to wipe my NAND, replace it with d+b to terminal, totally repartition the microdrive repeatedly, and then replace it with a CF card. And now it works!

Anyway, the OZ developers could tell you more, but AFAICT, all OZ needs is about 150 megs of ext2 in /dev/hda1, and it's then good to go. I have no idea where it puts the "altboot" bootloader, but it's got to be in there somewhere.

My partitions are as follows:

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root@spitz:~/# mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
ramfs on /dev type ramfs (rw)
ramfs on /dev/.static/dev type ramfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock2 on /mnt/nand2 type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
/dev/mtdblock3 on /mnt/nand3 type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
and /dev/hda2 is about 130 megs of swap. I hacked /etc/fstab to set this stuff up at boot, and it's working pretty well. hth -- wylbur.

ps. I live in Palo Alto. If you're close, we could hack a bit.
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2006, 07:19:00 am »
altboot is on the first partiion and is loaded as "init" which then calls exec init.real to do a normall boot

the OZ guys dont say much because they expect a standard layout however you can tell how much you need as a minimum for / by the size of the image you flash

i have 3 partions / /home and swap and it works well
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2006, 12:17:53 pm »
Okay,  
good stuff.        I think I will go for it this wknd!  I am going for the OpenZaurus this time.  
Thanks for all your input.  I will probably have tons of questions later    


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« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2006, 12:42:10 pm »
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Okay, 
good stuff.        I think I will go for it this wknd!  I am going for the OpenZaurus this time. 
Thanks for all your input.  I will probably have tons of questions later   


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