Re: [jornada] Is there a how-to for the jornada 720?

I yet to add this to our website, but the email below should get you going.

Regards

Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Judd" <ajudd@skywire.co.uk>
To: <jornada@handhelds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:53 PM
Subject: [jornada] Update status of Linux onto Jornada 720

> 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 Aug 18 15:00:17 2003