How do you install yours?

[al]

I've been using the Zaurus SL-5500 for a while now, and only in the past week have upgraded from 3.2 to 3.5.1.

I've been most impressed, and have managed to get almost everything I had running on 3.2 to run on 3.5.1.

Now, on reading this forum, there are several different methods of configuring your SL-5500 after the initial flash. I've probably flahsed and re-flashed 15 - 20 times before I found a stable installation.

My setup is as follows:
SL-5500
Kingston 256Mb 60x SDCard formatted to ext2
SanDisk 256Mb CF Card with OZ feed and upgrades feed in subdirs.

The first method I tried is as follows:

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1. Re-flash OZ 3.5.1 opie-image 64-0

2. Move root, opt, and usr to sd card (see below for my script)

2. Open as text /etc/ipkg.conf
add "src local file:///mnt/cf/feed" and "src local_upgrades file:///mnt/cf/upgrades"

3. from terminal, run

ipkg update
ipkg upgrade --force-overwrite
ipkg remove modutils
ipkg install --force-overwrite modutils
ipkg remove makedevs
ipkg install --force-overwrite makedevs

4. close Opie Terminal and go Settings > Shutdown > Reboot
This didn't work. On a reboot, it appears to have lost some links - modprobe and makedevs. I can't rember the rest.  OPIE didn't load.

The second method, and the one I currently use is as follows:

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1. Flash 3.5.1 64-0 Opie

2. Before turning the Z on, remove SD and cf card

3. Boot up then add cf and sd card

4. Go through the initial setup, or just press finish until OPIE appears

5.  Open the terminal

6. get rid of the following:
ipkg remove portmap
ipkg remove opie-packagemanager

7. get rid of any apps from the last install
rm -rf /mnt/card/*

8.  Go to filemanager and Open /etc/ipkg.conf as text so it contains

dest root /
src oz-unstable file:///mnt/cf/feed

9. Run the following in terminal
ipkg update
ipkg install -d root opie-aqpkg
ipkg install -d root opie-symlinker

10. Move root, opt, and usr to sd card (see below for my script)
I can now install pretty much what I want from the cf card to ROOT using the AQPKG manager. The only issue I have is that if I try to upgrade the packages to the ones in the upgrades directory (after of course adding the correct source to ipkg.conf) it again looses the links to modprobe and makedevs, resulting in OPIE not loading.

My script can be found here.

So, is there a better way or preferred way to configure 3.5.1??

How do you initially configure yours after the initial flash??

[al]

Bump... Anybody?

The above also works with 3.5.2.

Al.

[lardman]

I still can't understand why people move root, opt, and usr.

There is no reason I can see for doing this.

With the old and crap versions of ipkg (used by the Sharp ROMs for example) I can understand this (as it wasn't happy to install things anywhere but root), but with OZ it makes no sense.

I'd just install stuff to the SD card (with ipkg install -d sd, etc.) rather than mess about moving parts of the base system.


Simon

P.S. I'd go for your second method, with some alterations:

8. Make sure you also have 'dest sd /mnt/card' and 'dest cf /mnt/cf' so that you can install things to the SD and CF cards.

10. Delete this step completely.

[sbala04]

I tried installing directly on SD card, but failed  Please help

This is what I did (for collie):
1. flash oz 3.5.2
2. Use Packgage Manager GUI
3. Install xmms embedded (packages in CF card) and choose sd as destination.

Packages seem to have installed but no application icon appears!

[lardman]

Packages seem to have installed but no application icon appears!

You may need to run the following from the command line to symlink the files:

ipkg-link mount /mnt/card

Then you need to restart opie so that the icons show up.


Si

P.S. Your SD card is formatted as ext2 of course

[sbala04]

Lardman, that was great help. It worked like charm!

You rock (wait..the entire OZ team rocks!!)

[rosebud]

Hi, Simon i can't reinstall IRK. After many time using OZ 3.3.5 I updated to 3.5.2 with too much problems. Today I use 'Hentges' flavour and my Z run very well without crash or other badfunction. But:
- It's impossible to install IRK (problem about lirc-moldules, lirc or so);
- It's impossible to install hancom apps.

Help me, please.

Many thanks in advance (sorry for my poor english)

[lardman]

Don't know about IRK, but I've seen posts about this, try a search for it (if IRK is too short, use the google cheat which was posted in the Site Suggestions, Feedback, and Updates section.

The Hancom apps have also had endless discussion; Hancom sheet doesn't work due to the use of -soft-float (well it runs, but the numbers are wrong). Not sure about Hancom word. In either case you need to edit the control file. Try a search for "hancom AND control", that should turn up a few posts with an explanation in them.


Si