My take on the 6000L

[duffman]

I just recieved mine tonite, despite the attempts by the UPS man to thwart me (he arrived at my apartment at 2:34pm, of course I was not home).

At any rate, all I can say is wow. This is my first Zaurus but I\'m a fairly accomplished Linux user. A few questions though. I noticed a distinct lack of a compiler. Where can I get one? (preferably gcc/g++ of course) Also, are there any browsers for it that\'ll support flash or tabbed browsing. I use Opera on my desktops, and those are some features I truely miss on the Zaurus.

I also noticed a myriad of other fairly standard Linux commands missing, but I\'m sure I can fill those in over time. My main concern is a compiler though, is there one on the CD and I simply overlooked it? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[tumnus]

Welcome to the Zaurus community!

For gcc, I\'d recommend using the zgcc2 cramfs images as there is so much stuff needed. They were at http://community.zaurus.com, although that got taken down

But you can still get zgcc2 here:

https://www.oesf.org/downl...zgcc2Bin.cramfs
https://www.oesf.org/downl...zgcc2Inc.cramfs

With instructions:

https://www.oesf.org/downl...cc2install.html

As for other Linux utilities, the best places to look are:

http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus
http://prdownloads.sf.net/zaurus (Some stuff is a bit old as this is a discontinued SF project)

Google is also your friend.

[duffman]

Ok, I know I\'m not a moron, but having problems with mounting those cramfs files. Has anyone else actually got this installed and whatnot on a 6000?

I\'m trying to do it all from the internal flash, and it\'s telling me something along the lines of \"That isn\'t a Block Device\" I\'d put the error up verbatim but I recently had to re-format my Zaurus since the root password I\'d set, and used a few times somehow stopped working.

[Joshp]

Try this: mount -oloop IMAGE_FILE MOUNT_DIR
eg: mount -oloop cramfs_image.rom /mnt/cramfs

JP

Ps: This works on my sl-5500 don\'t know about the sl-6000 as I don\'t have one.

[duffman]

Excellent! That did it, thanks!

[maslovsky]

You may also try this image:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...download&sid=66

It includes pretty much everything you may need.

[duffman]

edit: nevermind