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« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2007, 03:59:48 pm »
I gave it a try (I know, I should be helping out Zdevil instead of playing somewhere else)

In short :

You need to have uboot installed .

You can find a kernel for C3X00 in this post (gentoo thread).. You also need the "modules" mentioned in the same thread.

Then you'll need the system : get it through the link in post 2 of this thread.

1. Format an SD-card in ext3.
2. extract the system to this card : warning : the archive has "armel-root-fs" as base-dir. You don't need this, the subdirs of "armel-root-fs" have to be in the root of the SD-card, or you'll get a kernel panic.
3. extract the "modules.tar.gz" as described in the gentoo-post mentioned above (where you got the file).
4. take a second (fat formatted) SD card.
5. put the "kernel.img" on it, together with an "autoboot.sh" (don't put anything else in the root of the card).
6. reboot your zaurus, hold the "OK" button, emergency-system will start.
7. when it asks to install the system, say Yes,
8. when it reboots, it will stop cause it has no init-files => put the card with system in it
9. put out the battery (and power), wait 5 secs, insert battery
10. debian boots.

(if you want to go back to pdaX, put the kernel.img from the release you were running on the fat-formatted card and replace the kernel following the same procedure => pdaX will boot again)

Question :
I've got it running, but how do I configure my wlan card without iwconfig ?
(i need wifi to connect to the web)

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« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2007, 04:43:00 pm »
Update :
I downloaded wireless-tools and dhcpcd, tranferred them to my card and installed them from there. Now wifi is working and "apt-get update" just finished.

I'll play a little more.
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« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2007, 05:42:35 pm »
Two other major problems that have to be solved :

How do I set the "hostname"?
My command prompt looks like :
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(none):/home/chero$
When I try to start X, it says :
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hostname : Host name lookup failureand fails.

Keyboard :
Major problem : How can I enter "/" ??
How to solve the rest of the issues with the keyboard ?

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« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2007, 10:44:30 pm »
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How do I set the "hostname"?

Set Hostname in /etc/hostname usually in debian..... Just put the hostname in this file.
* C3100 with Cacko 1.23 and debian (pocketworkstation) - 1Gb SD / 1Gb CF / Prism Wifi
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« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2007, 02:54:18 am »
@anonuk : Thanks, but I already figured that one out. I also needed to set it in /proc/sys/something.

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Chero, what is your general impression of performance and stability?
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Didn't play with it that much. I first need to get the keyboard right, working without a "/" on command line is impossible.
I'll try to get the pdaXrom keymappings in the debian system this evening.

Something I did try : I installed icewm, but when I try to "startx" it couldn't find "/etc/X11/X". Since I have no "/" I couldn't link "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" there.

Stability : command line is stable - wifi works now and I can apt-get (some packages are broken or missing). It sure needs some work to be usable (more than r198 and friends I believe).
Suspend and resume works, even outside X (I haven't got X running, remember).
Conclusion : it's too soon to comment on it anyway.

Comments from X-specialists (and others) are welcome.    

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« Reply #20 on: April 21, 2007, 07:40:39 am »
I have dealt with some of the general issues raised in this thread (using u-boot to boot a root filesystem on SD/MMC and using u-boot with other distros) amongst the issues and documentation that I put up on my home page (see signature).

You can allso download EABI cross toolchain from here:
http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm/download.html
Have fun ;-)
« Last Edit: April 21, 2007, 09:53:34 am by louigi600 »
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« Reply #21 on: April 21, 2007, 10:06:51 am »
I see that the kernel and the rootfs are for SD.
How about CF or microdrive?

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« Reply #22 on: April 21, 2007, 02:09:18 pm »
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Didn't play with it that much. I first need to get the keyboard right, working without a "/" on command line is impossible.
I'll try to get the pdaXrom keymappings in the debian system this evening.

Something I did try : I installed icewm, but when I try to "startx" it couldn't find "/etc/X11/X". Since I have no "/" I couldn't link "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" there.

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Don't have a machine around to play with.
Just googled a bit. How about ...

apt-get install console-data console-tools debconf
dpkg-reconfigure console-data

... to fix the keymap in console?
« Last Edit: April 21, 2007, 02:18:33 pm by ZDevil »

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« Reply #23 on: April 21, 2007, 04:06:36 pm »
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It is however lacking many packages that are on pdaxrom already, xfce was broken and couldnt find firefox/iceweasel, abiword or many others. Then again, icewm + lots of console programs work wonderfully - just not as many packages as pocketworkstation.
There are 9000 packages in the armel feed, which seems to have been an initial test, e.g., the log says that firefox 1.5 failed simply because the source was not found.
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Definitely interested in how to boot this on the Z though and how to get access to more packages if anyone has any other armel mirrors for debian.
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The developer postings refer to some existing toolchains and feeds, including a toolchain and some packages built and online at OE/Angstrom.

EABI has been around a while, but there seems to have been a burst of activity lately. Someone with a better understanding of the technical details can perhaps give us an idea how useful this could be for the Z community.
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Is it this one?    
[a href=\"http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/feed/armv5te/]http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/feed/armv5te/[/url]

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« Reply #24 on: April 21, 2007, 04:35:35 pm »
And don't forget that debian used Angstrom to build the armel repo: http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koen/cms/arm-eabi-fame
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« Reply #25 on: April 22, 2007, 03:24:42 am »
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And don't forget that debian used Angstrom to build the armel repo: http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koen/cms/arm-eabi-fame
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I saw the native arm eabi toolchain for Angstrom, I was wondering if there was also an equally good cross toolchain ?
In did snoop around on the Angstrom site a little but could not find it.
All I cluld find is how to setup a build environment to build Angstrom  on a debian based machine (but I use slackware 11). Anyone reported succesfull installation of the build environment on other distributions ?
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« Reply #26 on: April 22, 2007, 04:00:16 am »
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And don't forget that debian used Angstrom to build the armel repo: http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koen/cms/arm-eabi-fame
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I saw the native arm eabi toolchain for Angstrom, I was wondering if there was also an equally good cross toolchain ?
In did snoop around on the Angstrom site a little but could not find it.
All I cluld find is how to setup a build environment to build Angstrom  on a debian based machine (but I use slackware 11). Anyone reported succesfull installation of the build environment on other distributions ?
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« Reply #27 on: April 22, 2007, 05:03:31 am »
Question :

When I try to "startx" I get :
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Fatal server error:
Addscreen/Screeninit failed for driver 0

X10: fatal I/O error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"

I suppose this should be "zaurus:0.0" or "127.0.0.1:0.0", but how and where do I change this ?

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« Reply #28 on: April 22, 2007, 05:41:50 am »
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Question :

When I try to "startx" I get :
Code: [Select]
Fatal server error:
Addscreen/Screeninit failed for driver 0

X10: fatal I/O error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"

I suppose this should be "zaurus:0.0" or "127.0.0.1:0.0", but how and where do I change this ?

Chero.
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Does the method in the pocketworkstation threads help here, like appending "DEB_DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0" in  /etc/debroot.conf, or simply "export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0"?

Also have you fixed the "/" key?

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« Reply #29 on: April 22, 2007, 06:50:40 am »
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And don't forget that debian used Angstrom to build the armel repo: http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koen/cms/arm-eabi-fame
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I saw the native arm eabi toolchain for Angstrom, I was wondering if there was also an equally good cross toolchain ?
In did snoop around on the Angstrom site a little but could not find it.
All I cluld find is how to setup a build environment to build Angstrom  on a debian based machine (but I use slackware 11). Anyone reported succesfull installation of the build environment on other distributions ?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=159491\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

use bitbake. it should build on any linux distro...
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You mean OpenEmbedded?
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