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[u-boot] How I Can Install Beta3 Or Cacko ?
« on: September 25, 2006, 10:36:05 am »
I have installed pdaXrom beta4 with u-boot ...... now i want try other distro.....

Can i install this other distro trought the u-boot ?

The distro is :

beta 3
cacko
OZ

How can i do ?

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« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2006, 10:46:29 am »
As of right now... no... it can't be done... you will need to find the correct NAND for your device... which hopefully you have... and do a NAND restore to get the Sharp Bootloader back...

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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2006, 10:51:40 am »
I love the pdaXrom and so i have made an image of my HD for the future.... but i want try   other....i search a distro with more speed.....

On my old SL-5500, i had an OZ/OPIE and it was most speed .......

What do you suggest me? Wich distro to try?

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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2006, 11:15:19 am »
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I have installed pdaXrom beta4 with u-boot ...... now i want try other distro.....

Can i install this other distro trought the u-boot ?

The distro is :

beta 3
cacko
OZ

How can i do ?

THANKS

Bye
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Yes and no

openembedded ist useing another NAND  flash layout
and the openembedded kernel can not read u-boot parameters .
u need a special kernel and install images for openembedded gpe and opie images



    i can take a look if i find some running gpe/opie image with running kernel ..

someting like this for nand layout drivervs/mtd/nand/sharpsl.c ......
#define DEFAULT_NUM_PARTITIONS 5
static struct mtd_partition sharpsl_nand_default_partition_info[] = {
        {
        .name = "U-Boot",
        .offset = 0,
        .size = 256 * 1024,
        },
        {
        .name = "U-BootEnv",
        .offset = 256 * 1024,
        .size =  128 * 1024,
        },
        {
        .name = "Emergency",
        .offset = 384 * 1024,
        .size =5376 * 1024 ,
        },
        {
        .name = "Kernel",
        .offset = 5760 * 1024,
        .size = 1408 * 1024,
        },
        {
        .name = "JFFS2",
        .offset = 7168 * 1024 ,
        .size = 123904 * 1024 , // NICE BIG ROOTPART...
        },
};
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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2006, 11:15:28 am »
Have you tried beta3?

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« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2006, 11:53:23 am »
no.... What has beta3 more of beta4 ?

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« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2006, 12:08:30 pm »
Stability... I have Zero problems when I run beta3...

Quite frankly, I bounced back and forth between beta3 and 4 before rc121 came out... I would be sitting at home bored... and I would flash uboot and beta4... then when I got done playing with it (debugging)... I would burn beta3 back on for daily use... It is very stable and has all the same "external" features as beta4... but just a earlier kernel (2.4)

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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2006, 12:36:30 pm »
my problem is not stability.....for me beta4 it's ok!

I'ld want more speed....

IMHO - My SL5500 with OZ/OPIE was more speed of my C1000 with pdaXrom..... :-(
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« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2006, 01:46:50 pm »
Can't help u with that one... I've used pdaxrom on my Z for all but *maybe* 15 min... and that was to try OZ/GPE... :-/

Late

PS... well i did have sharp loaded just to charge the device for the initial 24 hours...
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« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2006, 06:14:40 pm »
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my problem is not stability.....for me beta4 it's ok!

I'ld want more speed....

IMHO - My SL5500 with OZ/OPIE was more speed of my C1000 with pdaXrom..... :-(
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why dont you just use OZ/OPIE then if speed is so important to you? OZ/OPIE is faster than OZ/GPE as well. QT/E is just more lightweight than X11. You can also switch to more lightweight wm like fluxbox/blackbox/evilwm/fvwm2/ratpoison/dwm rather than xfce/matchbox.
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