Re: Ramdisk Rescue Works Great!

Hi Marcus,

Marcus Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> hj2004 wrote:
>> Hi Marcus,
>>
>> Last night I re-tried it again just to get the syslog :)
>> Still the same error. :(
>>
>> Pls check the attached file.
>
> Apart from seeing that RR seems to be working, this log doesn't
> help much, as it's not the log from an attempted install.
> If/when you have an install failure, the log from that attempt
> *might* give some ideas about what is wrong.
Hmm... That log *really* is from the failed attempt... I'm not sure
either, but the log doesn't seems to contain any serious problem!

Anyway, I now got an Opie on my 256 SD card using Ramdisk Rescue! What I
did is: use another card to contain the setup files. Then put the 256 SD
card as the target media for linux installation. Format it all as ext2
partition. Replace it again with another SD card for writing the linux
'bootstrap'. When finished, copy the linux bootsrap files to 'IPAQ
FileStore'. It works!

I think Ramdisk Rescue is really cool! :)

>
>>
>> Just FYI: I've also installed Opie on my h4150.
>> Overal it looks good, but some features (wifi, ir, bluetooth, etc?)
>> still not functioning.
>
> See h4100@
>
>>
>> Suggestion: Is there a possibilities to include FAT r/w access in the
>> GPE/Opie?
>
> Err ... there is. You just need to load the correct modules.
> I think the reason they are not installed/enabled by default is
> because not everyone needs them. Also, it's pretty hard to tell
> what language/codepage modules you need, so that's left to the
> user.
> If you get an error trying to mount a {|v}fat partition, examine
> your log with:
> # logread | tail
> to see the error. The most common problem is usually a missing
> language/codepage module.
Can you give me a sample instruction on how to enable FAT partition
access from GPE/Opie?
I'm no linux expert :)

Thanks
>
> Marcus.
>
>>
>> Rgds,
>> Hindra Joshua
>>
>> Marcus Brown wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>> It would be nice to know what the problem with the 256MB card was,
>>> if possible. If you haven't reformatted it yet, there should be a
>>> RR-syslog.gz file somewhere on it.
>>>
>>> Marcus.
>>>
>>>
>>> hj2004 wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I've successfully installed GPE on my h2200 lastnight using Ramdisk
>>>> Rescue method described in
>>>> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/RamdiskRescue
>>>>
>>>> This methods is very interesting, because it doesn't need any tricky
>>>> manual operations other than preparing the setup files on an SD/CF
>>>> card.
>>>>
>>>> At first try, I used a 256 MB sd card and the setup failed when
>>>> creating
>>>> ext2 partition. Then I switched to a 1 GB sd card, and the setup went
>>>> very smoothly.
>>>>
>>>> The installation progress took a rather long time since all operations
>>>> (resizing part partition, ext2 partition creation, etc) was done all
>>>> using the pocket pc.
>>>>
>>>> Big thanks to Marcus Brown and to all the handhelds people!
>>>>
>>>> The only problem left: how to connect the device with Windows? When I
>>>> dock it Windows found a new 'Ethernet Gadget' but can't find the
>>>> correct
>>>> driver! :(
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Hindra Joshua
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>
>
Received on Wed Jun 13 2007 - 04:49:00 EDT