Re: Re: Manual installation (was ramdisk rescue installation)

Hello Bram,

Thursday, December 7, 2006, 9:47:37 PM, you wrote:

> I found out that this problem is gone with the unstable version of
> familiar, I used v0.8.4-h2200 which gave the problem below. Using
> v0.8.4-rc3-h2200 fixed this, so the wiki might have to make sure
> people use rc3 and not the stable version.

  Well, there's an (unofficial) version of Familiar 0.8.4 targeted
specifically for h4000 here:
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH4100Downloads .
It is known to work for quite a few people, and that's the best choice
for "stable" distro for h4000 now. (Unstable lovers may always use
Angstrom snapshots at
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/images/ ).

  If you have problems with unofficial Familiar images, you should
report them to the bugtracker,
http://bugzilla.handhelds.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&product=h4000-port
Or yet better, fix them, and submit patches. You may find patches used
to build unofficial image here:
http://www.handhelds.org/~pfalcon/familiar-build.patches/ .

> I'll try to clean it up and then I might post my full SD card as an
> image somewhere.

  Let me hint you that it's not of much use - just imagine if everyone
took some random binary snapshot, applied random changes, and offered
everyone else to use it. Chaos would ensue! So, there's an effort to
create reproducible and supportable distro images for h4000, and I
encourage you to join with this effort, not try to make it in "your
own" way. If you're interested, please start with reading h4000 wiki -
I may assure you, if you would follow its instructions from the
beginning, you very likely wouldn't face problems at all (or if you
would, with effort you put into this, we'd have current h4000's image
improved now, not old h2200's one). YMMV.

> Bram

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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml_at_gmail.com