How To Install Debian On Your Zaurus (obsolete)

[ZDevil]

Very nice...

To bad I aint own a C serie... maybe soon hmmm

I guess the same trick may do for SL-6000, as long as there is a suitable kernel.

[Chero]

booted fine, installed the debs, ran the script - rebooted.

udev working.
Called "zaurus" now.

What should I check ?

Problems :
- need to change sources.list cause it can't find packages
- the debs I downloaded are not fully compatible (need a newer libc6)

Chero.

[ZDevil]

Hmm. Then I guess if you can apt-get update after installation, then simply apt-get install those packages.
For the sources.list, you can only set to unstable, because armel is now available only in Sid.
The main reason why we need the consoletool after the first boot is to get the loadkeys command, which is executed in the "afterinstall.sh".
EABI is cool, sound just works without the Angstrom stuff (perhaps except the zaurusd thing), and no more jumping stylus pointer (at least true of 2or0's yonggun 2.6.30.1 kernel). Of course it is speeeeedy.

[Chero]

Hmm. Then I guess if you can apt-get update after installation, then simply apt-get install those packages.
For the sources.list, you can only set to unstable, because armel is now available only in Sid.
The main reason why we need the consoletool after the first boot is to get the loadkeys command, which is executed in the "afterinstall.sh".
EABI is cool, sound just works without the Angstrom stuff (perhaps except the zaurusd thing), and no more jumping stylus pointer (at least true of 2or0's yonggun 2.6.30.1 kernel). Of course it is speeeeedy.

What sources should I add in sources.list ?
The default seems to be down and kfreebsd-gnu has lots of unsolved deps .

[Chero]

Hmm. Then I guess if you can apt-get update after installation, then simply apt-get install those packages.
For the sources.list, you can only set to unstable, because armel is now available only in Sid.
The main reason why we need the consoletool after the first boot is to get the loadkeys command, which is executed in the "afterinstall.sh".
EABI is cool, sound just works without the Angstrom stuff (perhaps except the zaurusd thing), and no more jumping stylus pointer (at least true of 2or0's yonggun 2.6.30.1 kernel). Of course it is speeeeedy.

What sources should I add in sources.list ?
The default seems to be down and kfreebsd-gnu has lots of unsolved deps .

just ignore this question - the answer is in the mega-manual ...
Tip : maybe a working sources.list could be added in the addons-tar.gz ?

[ZDevil]

Hmm. Me too. apt-get update also gets stuck... site down?
How about: deb ftp.easynet.be/ftp/gnuab/debian sid main

[ZDevil]

Hmm. Me too. apt-get update also gets stuck... site down?
How about: deb ftp.easynet.be/ftp/gnuab/debian sid main

[ZDevil]

just ignore this question - the answer is in the mega-manual ...
Tip : maybe a working sources.list could be added in the addons-tar.gz ?

True. That's very easy to make.
@2or0: do you think we should spilt the finetuning package into at least two? One is for real after installation configurations, the other for adding useful packages, such as the gpe-confs and mplayer, etc.

BTW the OE forum also loads a bit slow today? Any hiccup?

[ZDevil]

Hmm. Me too. apt-get update also gets stuck... site down?
How about: deb ftp.easynet.be/ftp/gnuab/debian sid main

Oh, ignore my answer as well. apt-get is working now.

[Chero]

Hmm. Me too. apt-get update also gets stuck... site down?
How about: deb ftp.easynet.be/ftp/gnuab/debian sid main

Oh, ignore my answer as well. apt-get is working now.

for me too - I guess it was just bad timing

[Chero]

What window-manager are you using ? Icewm-experimental ?

- What to do before launching ?
- How do you launch it ?

(asking too many questions, so it can be usefull for the new girls and boys)
Chero.

[ZDevil]

AFAIR it's just two simple steps:

1. apt-get install icewm-experimental
2. In ~/.xsession (should have been created by the afterinstall.sh), add the line "exec icewm-session-experimental"

This icewm setting file may help you get started easier:
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(remove ".txt" and drop it to ~/.icewm -- create the dir first)


Can you verify if the afterinstall.sh and the zaurus-hardware-eabi package work, including ...
-- Set the correct date and time and "hwclock -w"?
-- ts_calibrate?
-- loadkeys?

Thanks for doing the little experiment.  

[Chero]

AFAIR it's just two simple steps:

1. apt-get install icewm-experimental
2. In ~/.xsession (should have been created by the afterinstall.sh), add the line "exec icewm-session-experimental"

This icewm setting file may help you get started easier:
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(remove ".txt" and drop it to ~/.icewm -- create the dir first)


Can you verify if the afterinstall.sh and the zaurus-hardware-eabi package work, including ...
-- Set the correct date and time and "hwclock -w"?
-- ts_calibrate?
-- loadkeys?

Thanks for doing the little experiment.  

hwclock -w works
loadkeys works

.xsession contains "xrandr -o right"

startx :command not found

ts_calibrate : ts_open: no such file or directory

[ZDevil]

startx :command not found
ts_calibrate : ts_open: no such file or directory

startx: what if ...
-- simply ln -s /usr/bin/icewm-session-experimental /usr/bin/startx?  OR
-- apt-get install xbase-clients (startx is there)?

ts_calibrate:
Can you show mean what is in your ~/.profile?
Mine has this:

......
TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/ts0
TSLIB_CONFFILE=/etc/ts.conf
export TELIB_TSDEVICE TSLIB_TSCONFFILE

and check if these files are present:

/usr/local/lib/libts-1.0.so.0.0.0
/usr/local/lib/libts-1.0.so.0
/etc/ts.conf
/dev/input/ts0

[ZDevil]

Oh, I see my typo (dammit!)

In ~/.profile, it should be "export TSLIB_TSDEVICE TSLIB_TSCONFFILE" instead of "export TELIB_TSDEVICE TSLIB_TSCONFFILE"