How To Install Debian On Your Zaurus (obsolete)

[scottlfa]

Yeah got mine up and running with some apps installed

Abiword, gftp, gnumeric, gqview, xfce4, gps, rox-filer (no rox-wallpaper) etc.

Synaptic, gThumb is broken.

Xfdesktop loads real slow, after the xfwm4 loads.

[ZDevil]

Congrats!  

Could you tell me, scottlfa, if network setting and connection just works without adding extra stuff such as the Angtrom packages?  I want to keep track of the guide but I forgot what has happened in my case ...

[scottlfa]

I use a NF-2511CF Mercury card;

After udev installed things have been fine.

I did "cat /proc/net/wireless" and eth2 came up (which is a rename of wlan0_rename)

All I had to do was edit the /etc/network/interfaces file and add the following lines;
iface eth2 inet dhpc
wireless essid "wireless"

and off it goes, I manually type ifup eth2 to launch it.

[scottlfa]

Gnome is broken, so too it would seem is kde.

[ZDevil]

scottlfa: try to look at the screen output for the errors.
I also ran into trouble installing some packages and got a mysterious (umount: /mnt/cf not mounted) error. The workaround is to plug in a CF card (suppose the packages are already downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives) and run apt-get install again.
Would that be the same story?
If that still fails, we can consider building them on our own, and put them in a new custom package feed...
Okay, time to switch to hyperwork mode. Hope I can be back tomorrow night ...

[scottlfa]

running from the sd card  ... and the errors I get are related to packages that it won't install.

[Chero]

running from the sd card  ... and the errors I get are related to packages that it won't install.

Check this page for "sources.list" : http://yonggun.tistory.com/54
Do an ap-get update and try installing them again.
(I was using other mirrors before with errors and this one solved it)

Chero.

[ZDevil]

Found two more issues in the guide:

-- Wireless network connection: the prerequisite packages libiw29_29-1_armel.deb and wireless-tools_29-1_armel.deb are missing; install them to get network connection before the first apt-get update.  (Thanks, chero)
-- Sound: you need to "modprobe snd-soc-spitz" first to get sound, and  "echo snd-soc-spitz >> /etc/modules" to make this run all the time.

The 0.4 version will have this. It will also try to incorporate yonggun's bits.  (Bravo, 2or0)
0.4 will be up tonight.

[ZDevil]

scottlfa, since your are using uboot on C1000 (uboot is cool, i begin to love it) would you mind testing kernel 2.6.23.1 yonggun? I asked 2or0 and he said in principle it should work, even though the kernel has "hda1" in the name.
If this works then I will also add this to Q20.

If things go well, after this revision I think the content is reasonably stable to be put to the wiki, and it will be open to all for editing.
Remember this is NOT my work, but is a collaboration of a number of enthusiastic players in the field.  

[2or0]

scottlfa, since your are using uboot on C1000 (uboot is cool, i begin to love it) would you mind testing kernel 2.6.23.1 yonggun? I asked 2or0 and he said in principle it should work, even though the kernel has "hda1" in the name.
If this works then I will also add this to Q20.

If things go well, after this revision I think the content is reasonably stable to be put to the wiki, and it will be open to all for editing.
Remember this is NOT my work, but is a collaboration of a number of enthusiastic players in the field.  

I believe that installing this on C1000 is exactly same as what I did on C3200 on SD. But it sould be confirmed by C1000 users.  

[dlj0]

I am still sitting on the fence with respect to eabi/armel.  I am confused about the X server.  it seems that 2or0 is using the xserver-xorg-video-fbdev server rather than the kdrive server we use in Titchy.  Is that correct?  Isn't that going to place a greater burden on the resources?  OTOH, this server allows configuration options (like a config file!) not used in the kdrive, so that would be worthwhile.

Sorry to not just jump in and see for myself, but I need to have this machine running for a trip in 2 weeks.  Is that feasible?

[2or0]

I am still sitting on the fence with respect to eabi/armel.  I am confused about the X server.  it seems that 2or0 is using the xserver-xorg-video-fbdev server rather than the kdrive server we use in Titchy.  Is that correct?  Isn't that going to place a greater burden on the resources?  OTOH, this server allows configuration options (like a config file!) not used in the kdrive, so that would be worthwhile.

Sorry to not just jump in and see for myself, but I need to have this machine running for a trip in 2 weeks.  Is that feasible?

No, debian(armel) is using xserver-kdrive-fbdev. Check here:  http://yonggun.tistory.com/54

[ZDevil]

I wonder why we have to install xserver-xorg-video-fbdev first is because we need to pull down the dependencies and not xorg itself. The repackaged kdrive xfbdev server also needs these dependencies but it doesn't not chase them. Or am i mistaken here?

Also, 2or0, in your guide you mention to apt-get -f install. Is it the workaround of the glibc dependency error when installing libconsole_0.2.3dbs-65_armel.deb, console-tools_0.2.3dbs-65_armel.deb, libiw29_29-1_armel.deb, wireless-tools_29-1_armel.deb (these are four initial packages to install in order to get other things going)?

[2or0]

I wonder why we have to install xserver-xorg-video-fbdev first is because we need to pull down the dependencies and not xorg itself. The repackaged kdrive xfbdev server also needs these dependencies but it doesn't not chase them. Or am i mistaken here?

Also, 2or0, in your guide you mention to apt-get -f install. Is it the workaround of the glibc dependency error when installing libconsole_0.2.3dbs-65_armel.deb, console-tools_0.2.3dbs-65_armel.deb, libiw29_29-1_armel.deb, wireless-tools_29-1_armel.deb (these are four initial packages to install in order to get other things going)?

First two packages are for keymap, and rest are for wireless. If you have errors, it is probably due to libiw29_29-1_armel.deb and wireless-tools_29-1_armel.deb. When I set it up, I used libiw28_28 and wireless-tools_28. I fixed this in my blog.

[dlj0]

I wonder why we have to install xserver-xorg-video-fbdev first is because we need to pull down the dependencies and not xorg itself. The repackaged kdrive xfbdev server also needs these dependencies but it doesn't not chase them. Or am i mistaken here?

Also, 2or0, in your guide you mention to apt-get -f install. Is it the workaround of the glibc dependency error when installing libconsole_0.2.3dbs-65_armel.deb, console-tools_0.2.3dbs-65_armel.deb, libiw29_29-1_armel.deb, wireless-tools_29-1_armel.deb (these are four initial packages to install in order to get other things going)?

First two packages are for keymap, and rest are for wireless. If you have errors, it is probably due to libiw29_29-1_armel.deb and wireless-tools_29-1_armel.deb. When I set it up, I used libiw28_28 and wireless-tools_28. I fixed this in my blog.

I thought from the installation of xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and similar things that this would be the server we'd use.  That explains, I guess, what is going on.

But, when you say "I fixed this in my blog", do we now use the 28 version, or the 29?