had my c860 for 3 hours now it wont even turn on

[markedman]

just one questionwhen you install programs off the cf to your z built on rom where do you find the program cause i sinstalled a few programs and i cant find them anywhere

[lardman]

Do you mean that you installed them to root (which is what I assume), or to the CF card?

If you installed them to the cf card, you may need top run ipkg-link:

ipkg-link mount /mnt/cf

so that they are symlinked.


If you installed them to root then they should just be there. Try running:

ipkg files <package name>

to see which files were installed in the package (and then check to see whether they are there).


Si

[Omicron]

just one questionwhen you install programs off the cf to your z built on rom where do you find the program cause i sinstalled a few programs and i cant find them anywhere

Another way to get familiar with installation directoories is to go to google and find WINRAR (for windows) or it's equivalent for whatever OS you run ON THE DESKTOP.

Then take an IPK (the one in question) and rename it from extension .ipk to extension .tar.gz  


Then open this fil with WINRAR...You will see on the first level that the gz file contains just one file, double click on that .tar file (no need to extract at all) and then you will see a directory structure....this is the directory sturcture that is refected in your Z when the IPK is installed.  GET FAMILIAR WITH THE DIRECTORIES and then when you find the proigram file in the IPK (tar.gz) using WINRAR, just look in the SAME place on either the CF, SD or Internal memory of your 860.

What I mean is, mirror the diirectory(of the IPK) and prepend:

/mnt/card (for SD)
/mnt/cf     (for CF)
/               (for internal)

Hope this helps.  Onc e you understand IPKs directory layout, you also understand installation layout (and yes they can differ in different IPK....some of this determine WHERE the icon belongs and you wnat Java programs in the Java section, etc).


For example, a java application or applet might look like this in the IPK and the internal memory:

/
/home
/home/QtPalmtop
/home/QtPalmtop/apps
/home/QtPalmtop/apps/java
/home/QtPalmtop/apps/bin
/home/QtPalmtop/java
/home/QtPalmtop/pics

(some of the leaf directories (those with no subs) will contains .image files for the icon (pics), java classes, shell scripts, control files, etc.

Look in the HOWTO's under creating an IPK as well and this gives you an idea of what the developer had in mind when wrapping the program in an IPK installable.

Hope this helps.