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drtyldesley

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« on: November 27, 2004, 10:13:51 am »
Hello and greetings fellow Zaurus owners.

I have just installed Open Zaurus & it seems to boot fine. What now????

I have logged in as root & issued a few basic Linux commands and everything seems fine. But I do not know how I can start a desktop/Xserver or even if I have this software installed.

Question: Do I need to install a window manager and X server(or alternative), or is it already installed I just need to issue some commands?

TIA

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drtyldesley

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« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2004, 10:56:30 am »
Been doing more searching, Should OPE not boot automagicly?

Think Ill try flashing again
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« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2004, 11:07:34 am »
Are you running OPIE or GPE?
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drtyldesley

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« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2004, 11:24:25 am »
Not sure what Im running at the moment. It boots to a root prompt. The kernel is collie

Thanks
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2004, 11:28:18 am »
Which initrd file did you download?  There is gpe, opie and bootstrap.  They are the files that ens in .jffs2
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drtyldesley

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« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2004, 11:29:55 am »
Just tried a reflash... same sort of results. The first time I booted up it just hung on the encryption key generation?
still no GUI?
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« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2004, 11:33:13 am »
You want to make sure that you are not using the bootstrap.jffs2.  Opie and GPE are the ones with the gui.
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drtyldesley

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« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2004, 11:39:28 am »
Im just trying using the Opie image
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MonkeyMuffins

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« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2004, 11:41:00 am »
Did you rename the file to initrd.bin?
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drtyldesley

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« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2004, 12:12:30 pm »
Just trying from scratch again. ill let you know what happens.
Thanks MonkeyMuffens for your help
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drtyldesley

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« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2004, 12:33:43 pm »
Its a beautiful thing....

Opie 1.2 now running...very slick.


Now I will look at the software to load.

Thanks again MonkeyM

See you around

ps think I must have loaded a bootstrap for terminal only... perhaps
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« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2004, 12:41:10 pm »
I'm glad to hwer that it worked.
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jaspercize

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« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2004, 08:42:02 am »
Hello,
 We are talking about OZ on a Z6K correct? Can any one tell me the strengths, weakness etc for switching? Any problems with SW/HW? Is there a performance difference?
TIA

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