Re: [iPAQ] Opie, /root on CF-Card and so on

Oi!

        I am currently running a similar setup to what I think you want to
do. Basically I did the following:

        -Installed Fam 0.5.1 and opie without CF card just to get it
working.
        -Then I installed Intimate (intimate.handhelds.org) on the CF
card. I did this primarily to get a running OS on the CF card and take
advantage of the boot script to allow me to choose which OS I want to
run; Familiar or Intimate (read: run OS from RAM or CF).
        -Finally I setup Opie as the default window manager on the CF card
so I could take advantage of the opie layout and applications.

        The benefits are that I have 2 working OSes and my ipaq is a
useable device with or without the CF card.

        The downside is that files or programs created/modified/removed on
the CF won't (necessarily) show up when I don't boot into the CF. So I
had to do some evaluation on what's the purpose of having an ipaq without the
CF card and what it's purpose is WITH the CF card.

        I came up with this:

-Without the CF card my ipaq is:
        my mobile pim with some games for when I'm bored, and a low-frills
internet connection for browsing and email.

-With the CF card, it's a:
        Full-featured computer with the advantages of compiling programs,
downloading and storing mp3's, and all the goodies that
Familiar/Intimate/Opie have to offer.

        I'm sure there are 1.744 million combinations of software that we
can put on the ipaq, but I think what's important is to determine the
purpose of our ipaqs.....besides of course a party-stopper and
chick-magnet :)

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Kai Straube wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some problems and I dont no, if they are have one or more solutions.
> My situation: I using familiar 0.5.1 and opie. I want to have the /root (my
> home) at CF-Card. The CF- card has a ext2 filesystem. It will be mounted at
> boot-time (sometimes not ;-( ) on /usr/local. I made a symbolic link from
> /usr/local/root (what is at the CF-Card) to /root. The problem(s): If I have
> the ipaq at the CF-sleeve the start of opie ar verry slow. The sequence from
> boot prompt to opie takes minutes (3-4). Then I do something on opie, for
> instance opening a konsole or another app (after I find the directorie
> /usr/local is correctly mounted and the link to /root is working with the
> opie-filemanager) opie crashes. I can make a ppp-connection, and with ssh I
> can work at the ipaq.
> Another problem, I dont no if there is a relationship between this problems:
> I try to using leafnode (with mini-inetd) and slrn to read news at the ipaq.
> The directory /var/spool/news also linked to the CF-Card at
> /usr/local/var/spool/news. Using a ssh-connection all workes fine. If I using
> it with opie or after starting opie I get the message that the .jnewsrc-file
> are locked by a process. The process is opie. Whats that?
> Now, I have no ideas, how I can realize my wishes: /root at the cf-card, a
> working opie, news on ipaq with the news-spool on cf-card.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks!!
>
> Kai
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Received on Thu Feb 28 21:20:31 2002