Installing Opie From Packages

[pcgamingsolutions]

According to the Opie site, it will work with my SL-6000 with the Sharp rom.  I'm not looking to replace Qtopia, just use Opie so I can sync with my linux machine using MultiSync.  So I went to the SharpROM feed http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/stable/sharprom/ and downloaded every package there.

But they don't have an installation guide package!    All of the sites I've seen about installing Opie talks about compiling it from source, not using the packages.  So I have all of these packages on my CF card, and don't know my root password (whatever the default one on the 6000 I guess).  What next?

[lardman]

just use Opie so I can sync with my linux machine using MultiSync

This will be difficult.

Firstly you'll need to use the Opie PIM apps rather than the Sharp versions.

Secondly you'll presumably need to support an ftp server on port 4242 (which is what Opie does as that's what Qtopia used to do).

Now you can do the first part quite easily (that's why the feed is there), however you can't do the second bit unless you do some hacking (as Opie won't co-exist with Qtopia).

Your options:

* Look into how multisync is handled and change it to use samba with the Opie PIM apps
* Look into how multisync is handled and change it to use samba with the Sharp PIM apps using dtm2xml
* Look at the Opie code which produces the ftp server, emulate this with a daemon which runs under the Sharp Qtopia version. Then either use the Opie PIM app xml data directly of implement the dtm2xml hack to use the Sharp PIM data.

Best of luck,


Si

[pcgamingsolutions]

OR... I could backup my info to my CF card and transfer it to the computer for regular backups.  I feel like I spent all this money on a great PDA that can't do a whol e lot.  YaY Sharp.  I guess I'll keep using the Sharp supplied programs until OZ or another ROM is available for the 6000.

[lardman]

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