Re: Ramdisk Rescue Works Great!

Hi,

Re log:
$ egrep "SHOW|SELECTED" RR-syslog-9 | sed "s/^.*root: //g"
SHOWING WELCOME.
SHOWING MENU: 0 "MAIN MENU".
SELECTED: 2
MENU: 1 SELECTED: 1 COMMAND:
SHOWING MENU: 1 "INFORMATION".
SELECTED: 1
SELECTION: 11#SHOW MACHINE
MENU: 1 SELECTED: 1 COMMAND: SHOW MACHINE
SHOWING MENU: 1 "INFORMATION".
SELECTED: 3
SELECTION: 13#SHOW SD CARD
MENU: 1 SELECTED: 3 COMMAND: SHOW SD CARD
SHOWING MENU: 1 "INFORMATION".
SELECTED: 5
MENU: 1 SELECTED: 5 COMMAND: SAVE SYSLOG
SHOWING MENU: 98 "SELECT A CARD TO SAVE THE LOG TO".
SELECTED: 1

No installation there! (failure or otherwise) :)

Still, glad to hear that you seem to have got it all working.
Booting from file store is a nice way to go.
Now I just need to include auto backup/restore functions for
you and you'll be set! :)

Marcus.

hj2004 wrote:
> 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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>>>>> https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/h2200-port
>>
Received on Wed Jun 13 2007 - 23:55:58 EDT