Ok, I am not new to any of this so although it seems like a newb post I'm really just trying to save myself time trying everything out.
I have a 3100. Ran pdaXrom on my old 860, had OZ on the new 3100 for a long time, then went back to Cacko because 'it just worked' better for my needs.
Since then, my Z has sat in a drawer for months, can't even remember how long actually. Needless to say that is a lot of investment doing nothing. I want to use it again, but don't need a PDA ... I want it to be a mini-laptop. Not a test machine, but something actually useable that I can count on working.
Enter pdaXrom beta3. Not ready to plunge into the new boot loader, and this seems to be the best/last stable. So here are my questions:
First, best partition scheme? My current thougths were 121meg nand root, 128meg swap on HD, and rest of HD one big ext2 volume. Default mounting puts /mnt/ide for the HD. Does anyone recomend any symbolic links to folders (like home or opt) so that application installs are better/easier? Or has the ipkg -d ide install option been made more stable? I am very used to OZ loading to HD and having the full 4gig as root so need to see how you pdaXrom guys do it.
And second, best window manager replacement? I really wanted to run xfce4 as I use that on a lot of my desktop/servers, plus it would wow my co-workers. However, I see fluxbox is getting popular, as is icewm ... or even just adding Rox desktop to default install. All I really need is something where editing menus isnt' too hard and that provides a window list. I know it's opinionated but any feedback would help.
Thanks in advance to everyone, hopefully with a little learning and some time my Z will be back at being productive once again.