Klaus (& Matt), On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:33:07PM +0100, Simon Pickering wrote: >> Though I'm new I am a quick learner. My main goal is to have a working >> native X environment on my Z. Most of the stuff I use is X based and I >> presume I can find something to fulfil my PIM needs (which are basic). >> >> If I can manage a useful window manager then I'll have something to >> play with at least.
> I'd still recommend going with the chroot / pivot_root-based approach and having the > entire distribution on an SD/MMC card - on Matt's system, the root filesystem is in the > built-in flash storage, you have to manually move /usr and other large directories onto > external storage. This can be rather tricky to get right, and if you're not careful you > can lock up your system or run out of space at inconvenient times. I'm not worried about this, I've been running with /usr/local symlinked to an MMC card since I got my Zaurus. > My "pocketworkstation" distribution does work natively on the SL-5x00 and SL-C7x0 (using > pivot_root to switch over entirely to the root filesystem on the SD/MMC card), and > contains a default icewm configuration. Nearly all X11 apps work after a simple "apt-get > install" as long as the space for them is available. I'd really like something which will work from the ROM (and has a writable ROM as it pains me to think that that storage is sat there effectively unused - Crow ROM and even OZ for example) and then I can use MMC/CF cards to add storage space for /usr etc.. I don't really want to use the Crow ROM as I'd like a system which will work (even if it's only ion a very basic fashion) without needing any external storage cards. This is why the native debian or OZ + GPE tempt me. > Your problems getting it running seem to have been caused by the faulty "tar" > implementation distributed with the OZ system. Are you willing to give it another try > using GNU tar to unpack it (http://www.w-m-p.com/software/pocketworkstation/gnu-tar.gz), > or the modified Crow ROM? It would appear to be partly busybox, I tried the gnu-tar file and didn't get any hard-links not supported messages which I did with the normal (OZ3.2 busybox) version of tar. My version of busybox (OZ3.2) is: v0.61.pre (2003.03.28-19:37+0000). I didn't follow you instructions exactly (oops), I did: # ./gnu-tar -zxvpf zaurus-debian-*.tgz I presume this should have the same effect as your zcat method? If not I can try again. FYI there's probably another problem with this version of busybox - fdisk doesn't work. Though this isn't relevant to our discussion. Oh and nor does mknod I think I read on the forum. There are still issues with running on OZ as I still don't get IceWM. I get an error after starting Vncserver: # Vncserver & # /usr/local/bin/zvncserver: line 24: cannot redirect standard input from /dev/null: Permission denied It also looks like OZ doesn't re-run the scripts which are placed in /etc/rc2.d. I remember reading that OZ did something strange like not run these scripts until opie exited, possibly because opie is started in /etc/rc2.d? -Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
