On 7/11/07, John Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have successfully formatted ext2 and mounted my 2GB SD. I have > configured the destination in ipkg.conf for ipkg to be /media/card. > It does install there. So I installed for starters 'minimo' and 'mrxvt'. > > I find that unlike when I installed dillo to destination 'root /', > there is nothing on the desktop after installation. Typing minimo or > mxrvt into the shell tells me the command is unknown. If I precede > the commands by /media/card/usr/bin/ then mrxvt at least opens, > whereas minimo complains that /usr/lib/mozilla-minimo/minimo is missing. > > Guess there may be something wrong with minimo - and I only installed > it to see if I could install something. But I just wondered if I am > doing something fundamentally wrong that makes it so that installed > apps are not recognised either as desktop links or shell commands, > and is there some quick way of making them so, and for all I know the > slew of libraries that get installed automatically with them.
After you install via ipkg you need to then run ipkg-link for these packages. > > Finally, am I right to be installing things to /media/card? The root > partition on the Z itself (c860) seems very small after what I have > been used to on the pdaXrom. > Yes, installing to card is the general way in which we overcome the space limitations on these devices. -- Justin Patrin _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
