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sackler

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« on: January 09, 2005, 04:44:03 am »
Hi all,

     I recently purchased a c3k from geekstuff4u.com. I have previously owned an sl-5500 which I sold yesterday to help pay for my new baby
However, I am extremely dismayed by a couple of things. First off, the rom that came on my zaurus SUCKS. I am so incredibly anxious for an OZ or other rom for my new zaurus. Right now, it is an 800 dollar paperweight. All I can do is some incredibly useless pim functions, and play mp3s. Until I get a proper linux distribution on it, is is a glorified calculator. I would do this myself, but I am not skilled enough yet to take up such a task.
So here is my question:
I have noticed that many other people seem to have access to a terminal on their c3k! I do not! Why is that? I suppose that I have a unique, and singularly useless rom installed on my zaurus. Can anyone offer a suggestion as to what I can do to at least get access to a terminal? It would be too much to ask to actually be able to get a more fully functional linux running on this thing until something a bit more tailored to my device comes along.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Ryan Sackler.

My email address is sackler at gmail dot com. If you would like a gmail invite let me know.
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prahs

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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2005, 05:26:54 am »
Hi,

Not sure what rom you have - take a look at settings and system info and let me know. In terms of advice on terminal - qpeterminal.ipk works fine but if you want to trash it and get a backup including keymapper, terminal etc then take a look at

http://www.trisoft.de/en_c3000howto.htm

Please note, i have used this backup without any problems but i cannot ensure your device will be the same.

Also there is a very good guide here for getting started....you may, of course already have seen this...
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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2005, 11:20:21 am »
The terminal doesn't come installed.  It's on the CD.

Took me a couple days of "This thing sucks where's the terminal", too.

I also followed the Full Debian HOW-TO for putting debian on it so I have a pretty functional linux OS on there without much trouble or any destruction.
« Last Edit: January 09, 2005, 11:20:46 am by TronDD »
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sackler

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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2005, 08:41:59 pm »
Hah, Thanks to both of you. Right on the money
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« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2005, 10:07:53 am »
Did you put Debian on it?
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