A Clean, Fresh, Configured Eabi Rootfs Tarball

[zecrazytux]

cool
why e16 and not e17 ? e17 works great under angstrom

cuz i'm using E17 on my laptop and i think that it is a little too heavy for the Z (unless you choose a color only wallpaper, no window effects and so on...)
well, what's new on E ? new libraries: don't think it uses less memory or cpu (on my laptop it takes more than XFCE), wm overall look improved, new applications.
And that's buggy. (at least much more than e16 which is on a stable state) where are the advantages ? i don't care about using bleeding edge apps if i have to spend 3 times more to open a terminal  

but i'll certainly make a try

did you try icewm too ? i wonder if e16/e17 is faster than icewm...

that's fast too. that's ahrd to compare the both... MHO, that's just a matter of choices

wake up ! it's 14h07 in France !!! wink.gif

hmmm... i got up à 7h to go to school


well, have a good day, you guys, i'm goin to bed for now  sorry for my english, i'm really exhausted

[python]

As my Debian EABI on my 3200 has been set up successfully and started making packages missing in the armel feeds, I am thinking of rolling up a new, fresh, and fully configured tarball, specially tailor-made for the yonggun kernels with the following ingredients:

1) Base = The January 07 EABI rootfs
+
2) apt-get dist-upgrade
+
3) 2or0's finetuning packages
+  
4) The other configuration stuff in my after installation tarball

There are two big advantages AFAIK:
-- It can save new users a lot of time and frustrations setting up the system; no post installation step is needed except setting up network connection.
-- It will certainly work because it must be working on my machine in the first place.

If someone is interested (even if there is just one or two users) I will do it before the weekend.
So does anyone want it?

Is the EABI rootfs available for download?

[ZDevil]

Sorry for keep you waiting.

At first I was trying to create the tarball on my C860 from the ground up. But now it does not have a working (yonggun) kernel yet, and I was terribly busy over this couple of weeks. May try to do that on my 3200 this weekend.

[python]

Sorry for keep you waiting.

At first I was trying to create the tarball on my C860 from the ground up. But now it does not have a working (yonggun) kernel yet, and I was terribly busy over this couple of weeks. May try to do that on my 3200 this weekend.

No problem. Anyway i got my EABI debian installed  but with Angstrom 2.6.23 kernel instead of yonggun kernel.

[jpmatrix]

No problem. Anyway i got my EABI debian installed  but with Angstrom 2.6.23 kernel instead of yonggun kernel.

+1

can younggun make a special kernel for the c3000, without uboot or altboot or i don't know what-boot ?

[Fatty]

Sorry for keep you waiting.

At first I was trying to create the tarball on my C860 from the ground up. But now it does not have a working (yonggun) kernel yet, and I was terribly busy over this couple of weeks. May try to do that on my 3200 this weekend.

Hi ZDevil, any progress on this?

[ZDevil]

Hey, Fatty! Glad to see you here again!
Okay, i'll get the (tar)ball rolling tonight.

[Fatty]

Hey, Fatty! Glad to see you here again!
Okay, i'll get the (tar)ball rolling tonight.

Longing for playing with the Z w/ Debian! You'll save my life!

I did buy a new Sandisk 8G and tried installing again, but still got the same kernel panic issue. But I finally figured out what had been happening: I didn't press [2] while booting with uboot! So the issue is not CF related  

[OT] not back to the place-you-know-where for some time, and only recently noticed you won't be back there. So see you here   . My wife is getting better now but the health issue is on me though ...

[ZDevil]

The tarball is ready!  It's 195MB big (close to 700MB when extracted, because it's fully configured and installed with many goodies). jpmatrix, may I upload it to your ftp?  

[jpmatrix]

The tarball is ready!  It's 195MB big (close to 700MB when extracted, because it's fully configured and installed with many goodies). jpmatrix, may I upload it to your ftp?  

go go go !!!!

[ZDevil]

Finished uploading (in /uploads ). How can we access it?  
Once the file is open for d/l I will post some instructions for using the tarball.
BTW, the other stuff in /uploads are not useful any more. So feel free to clean theme up.

[Moad-Dib]

cool
why e16 and not e17 ? e17 works great under angstrom

cuz i'm using E17 on my laptop and i think that it is a little too heavy for the Z (unless you choose a color only wallpaper, no window effects and so on...)
well, what's new on E ? new libraries: don't think it uses less memory or cpu (on my laptop it takes more than XFCE), wm overall look improved, new applications.
And that's buggy. (at least much more than e16 which is on a stable state) where are the advantages ? i don't care about using bleeding edge apps if i have to spend 3 times more to open a terminal  

but i'll certainly make a try

did you try icewm too ? i wonder if e16/e17 is faster than icewm...

that's fast too. that's ahrd to compare the both... MHO, that's just a matter of choices

wake up ! it's 14h07 in France !!! wink.gif

hmmm... i got up à 7h to go to school


well, have a good day, you guys, i'm goin to bed for now  sorry for my english, i'm really exhausted

Hello, what repository do you use, because i've only E16 available.

[jpmatrix]

Finished uploading (in /uploads ). How can we access it?  
Once the file is open for d/l I will post some instructions for using the tarball.
BTW, the other stuff in /uploads are not useful any more. So feel free to clean theme up.

ok!
it will be available within 1 hour on:

http://matrixmen.free.fr/zaurus/debian/

as http://matrixmen.free.fr/zaurus/debian/zau..._071128.tar.bz2

[adf]

This sounds interesting. You probably remember I had a kernel panic issue with Titchy due to the kernel not recognizing my A-Data 16GB internal. I'm guessing that this kernel won't either (though it would be handy).  This raises 2 possibilities-- will u-boot handle my internal cf issue, and if not is there a reasonable way to do a 1000 style sd installation on a 3100 (and then use the internal cf as /home, or something like, ultimately)?  

Also, how is the sound?

[ZDevil]

Thanks, jpmatrix!  
Added a short instruction in the first post for easy reference.

@adf: the A-Data card issue all depends on the kernel. But the rootfs tarball can be boot on the internal drive, SD and CF. I created this tarball on an SD and everything works. Sound plays well.