Start from scratch with a 256mb SD and TKRom - Read please!

[Anonymous]

I just picked up a 256 SD card ($65 at best buy, honoring a circuit city deal, I had a best buy gift card).  So that was a great deal.

As I began installing apps to it I got the usual \"bla bla, might not work\" and sure enough practically anything worked...

I have no problem flashing the rom again and starting from scratch, and I think I would like to in order to clean things up, there is nothing on there that I can\'t just sync up again.

I\'m using the kompany rom, ambicom wireless card, and sandisk 256 SD.

I know there are updated version of ipkg, how do I install/upgrade that, and will it help out installing new apps?

Or setting my SD card as /home.

Also formating the card to be ext2 instead of vfat.

I\'m not a total newb to linux but not knowing the zaurus too well I want to do things right...

I\'m also thinking about possibly using OZ just for opie apps.... or could those be ran in TKR w/libopie?  I would like to use Welleinreiter II for my wardriving (can that work in anything other than OZ) although Kismet works just fine... the real time packing viewing would be nice.  Nmap as well and zgcc along with apache/php/mysql .  With so much space i\'m going to make the most of it and turn my zaurus into a powerhouse.


So all in all what is the best way to go about doing all this?  You may email me at willia90@morrisville.edu or reply here.

Any/all help would be appreciated, thanks all!!!!

[brewin]

The new ipkg can now install Opie packages. Just follow the instructions on the page.
It\'s here: http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=874


There\'s a script for TKC.rom that puts /home on SD. It\'s under SL-5000 on the page but I know it will work for the 5500 and maybe others.
It\'s here: http://community.zaurus.com/project/showfi...&release_id=275

As for formatting an SD card as ext2, TKC.rom comes with a formatter. But here\'s how to do it in Konsole:

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umount /mnt/card

mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcda1

mount /dev/mmcda1 /mnt/card

A lot of opie apps can be run in TKC.rom with libopie, but if I remember correctly, Wellenreiter needs libopie2 also. I don\'t think libopie2 has been ported to the Sharp rom. (I may be wrong.)

[shadowkwarrior]

where is this script? the link doesnt work for me :-( thanks

[Anonymous]

where is this script? the link doesnt work for me :-( thanks

That site is now mirrored try:
https://www.oesf.org/commu...roms/index.html

[derekp]

I\'ve got a newer version of the prep-home-sd.sh script, that fixes a couple of bugs, and possibly can help in some situations where people were getting a lockup on suspend.  Just uploaded it here today, don\'t know how long it\'ll take before it shows up in the downloads section.  File name is prep-home-sd_test5.zip.