I\'ve successfully installed 336pre on a 5600. OpieMedia player even works! Whoa! The whole process is not without pitfalls, and false starts.
This is a mini howto for newbies to the OZ.
Here is what I have learned.
1) remove alot of crap
BEFORE I did the upgrade I rm -rf alot in /opt and /usr/ and /lib ... I did this because I wanted the OZ filesystem to start anew without leftovers getting in the way.
# cd /opt
# rm -rf *
just dont delete your stuff on your cf or sd cards!!
2) Install OZ 336pre exactly as is stated in the howto. Keep in mind that for the 5600 a \"reset\" is opening up the battery plate, waiting 5 seconds or so, pressing the reset button, closing the battery hatch, switching up the little switch, and then concurrently pressing the \"cancel\" and \"ok\" keys on the front. This brings you into the Maintenance menu. Selecting Cancel at this point is effectively reseting the box without doing anything.
3) Someone mentioned previously after the install to forget about setting the time. I agree. You want to get into Konsole as quickly as you can to do the
#echo 1 ] /proc/sys/kernel/printk
... then fix the time.
4) After that you will notice how nicely OZ looks and works! However you maybe quick to be dismayed by the fact that there are a ton of packages already installed taking up space on /mnt/root ... Simply installing one package at this point could easily BREAK the package install program as it wont be able to write to its status file.
5) so... uninstall some stuff carefully. I chose to do one package at a time just to be carefull.
6) To get OpieMediaPlayer going install the skin first... then the player.
... to be continued...
