Re: [jornada] Update status of Linux onto Jornada 720

Hi Alex (and everybody else),

I have a Jornada 720 and I'm crazy to install linux on it. For what I've
read in this email there are a couple of tarballs that create a "distro"
(Thanks god!).

I can help to document the process the same way I did for the Jornada
680, but I need to have these tarballs.

Does anybody knows what are those "Peter's tarballs" Alex is talking
about? (I think Alex is on hollidays, so anyone else will help).

Thank you very much,

Eduard

Alex Judd wrote:

>After a significant amount of head bashing with Compact Flash cards and
>Linux I now have my machine happily booting with Peter's tar ball releases
>of Familiar Linux and his Kernel build so I thought I'd share a few lessons
>from my trials.
>
>1. Create all of your partitions on your CF card using Linux on a laptop.
>
>Sounds obvious I know, but initially I was creating the partitions on the
>disk (/dev/hde in my case) using Linux and then using Windows to format one
>of the partitions. Doing this either Windows refused to format the partition
>if Linux went first, and vice verse.
>
>2. Make sure you get the right partition types
>
>So, the correct way to do it is to make two partitions one type 6 and one
>type 83 (your device may be at a different hd(x) location) and then to
>format them with the right file system.
>
>fdisk /dev/hde
>mkdosfs /dev/hde1
>mke2fs /dev/hde2
>
>Thanks to Jacek for that.
>
>3. Unpacking the tar balls
>
>Mount your two CF card partitions to a suitable place
>
>mkdir /pcmciados
>mount /dev/hde1 /pcmciados
>mkdir /pcmcialinux
>mount /dev/hde2 /pcmcialinux
>
>unpack the tar balls
>
>tar -xvf /drivec/familiar/hdg1*.tar /pcmciados
>tar -xvf /drivec/familiar/hdg2*.tar /pcmcialinux
>
>4. Pop the card in the 720 and boot.
>
>You'll need to change the 'Storage Card' to yours, and ensure the radio box
>is the one on the far left (MC I think? My machines at home). That should
>get it all working
>
>5. Power saving & screen behaviour
>
>I'm yet to build or get a prebuilt Kernel that supports any form of
>shutdown, reboot or powersaving at the moment. From reading it is supported
>in a limited extent so I plan to build from cvs and some point in the future
>to find this.
>
>Also, the screen appears to fade up to white if left alone for a while, and
>also often produces a single red line strip across the screen during boot.
>None of which appear to harm the device however I had to disconnect
>batteries for a while to get rid of the boot line after one trial
>
>So, feel free to mail me if anyone wants to know a bit more and thanks to
>the rest of everyone for the help
>
>Cheers
>
>Alex
>
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Received on Mon Dec 30 2002 - 12:00:47 EST