Rc8 Install Instructions

[alan]

yeah, sashz, that was him... I addmitt i've sent lots and lots of messages on the irc but it was just becaue i was really affraid i may lose my zaurus right when i needed it for professional use... I needed some help but this rude guy wasn't able to understand such a thing...

Never mind, thanks to this forum, i know there are lots of (other) people who are always ready to help !

[jubbathehat]

instructions on the pdaxrom site are a bit out of date, so i updated them for an install on a c760, should be easy enough to adapt to your own model.


go through options again
chose option 1 resize root partition
enter 121
reboot
choose option 1 install new rom
the rom is flashed
reboot the z
at login prompt, log in as root
then startx
then calibrate the touchscreen
enjoy


philo

I decided to flash RC8 over RC5 on my 860. I started to follow the instructions from Philo but seem to have missed out setting the partition size   . Anyway install seemed to work OK and the Z works OK. Should I start again and make sure that I set the partition as in the instructions or will it be OK as it is?? What is the likely impact of leaving the partition as it is?
Any comments appreciated
Jubbathehat

[pgas]

I don't think you need to repartition. (I didn't do it)

Just take care when you install an application where you install it, if the destination is /,
then its on the root partition if it is  /mnt/user it will install on the user partition.

You can check the size left by issuing 'df' on a terminal.

If the root partition is full then you will most likely have some problems.

Some (a lot of) people prefer to have only one big root partition, because then you don't have to take care of this. A drawback of repartitioning might be that it might be more difficult to flash another rom image (OZ) afterward.

BTW I don't think there are any modification to this regard between RC5 and RC8 or any release. And if you had repartition the flash before I don't think you need to do it again.