On May 13 2007 2:28 pm David L. Johnson wrote: > Willie Fleming wrote: > > I can't find instructions either. I'd try and experiment but I'm scared > > of turning the Zaurus into a brick. If anyone can convince me my fears > > are groundless then I'll certainly go ahead and document any success or > > failure > > Well, I donno about instructions for the 5500, but the comparison of > installation ease and success between Angstrom and pdaXrom was night and > day for me. > > I have been told that it is "nearly" impossible to brick a Zaurus > through software alone, but... I nearly succeeded trying to install > the latest pdaXrom. I found the files needed to restore the Sharp rom > from http://www.trisoft.de.
The final Sharp update (that I know of) for the 5500 is at http://www.myzaurus.com/ROMupdate5.asp. There's a 5600 update labelled August of 2003 at http://www.myzaurus.com/ROMupdate6.asp, but I don't know if that's the final official update. There's no ROMupdate7.asp page. Ed -- "Hold on to your hats, friends. Your DNA could be one worm away from entering the global computing grid. But at least you'll have a really fast PC for playing Doom 78." -- <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/15/gates_sc_keynote/> _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
