Re: installl success

Thank you! This did help. A LOT.

I'd like to somehow fix linuxrc.intimate, though... any ideas on how to
accurately get information as to which button was pressed? I'd like to
continue playing with Familiar as well, without necessarily removing the
CF card.

Also, I'd like to add to the list some stuff about setting up PPP,
except that I haven't the faintest. I'll start a new thread about my
problems there.

-J

cian wrote:

>After much battling managed to get the latest version of intimate installed on
>my ipaq h3600 with 1gb microdrive roughly following the install page on the
>web site.
>Roughly:
>1) Installed familiar 0.6 and the 0.5-1 intimateboot ipkg as described at the
>top of the install page
>2)Ran mkdir -p /tmp/intimate && cd /tmp/intimate && wget
>http://intimate.handhelds.org/installer/installer && sh installer
>from familiar.
>3)Went with the defaults pretty much all the way except didn't install
>intimateboot at the end.
>4)Created the file "params" in /boot containing:
>set linuxargs="noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=linuxrc.intimate
>console=ttySA0"
>5)Edited the /linuxrc.intimate file, really just commenting out the section
>that gives you various system options during boot (this wouldn't respond to
>any keypresses I made, effectivley hanging the ipaq), and setting the
>"action" variable to intimate, just before it's checked in the main "if"
>statement.
>6)This get's me into a basic intimate install ,but with no X, ssh and other
>stuff. Turns out the installer script comments out installing a whole raft of
>packages because of some broken packages apparently. Just open it up in your
>web browser and use apt-get to install whichever of these you want.
>7)I installed some other stuff too, apt-get makes this very nice, though I've
>been having problems with corruption of the "available" database. Sound
>required me to "modprobe hc3600-uda1341", but this would only work after I
>ran "update-modules". Also matchbox runs, but doesn't display anything on the
>screen.
>
>I didn't document as I went along so this is all
>to-the-best-of-my-recollection", but if people have trouble with the above I
>should be able to fill in any blanks I left.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Cian
>
>P.S. Does anyone know what the name of the package is that lets you configure
>the touch-screen positioning?
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