Re: Install Opie

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 21:17, Robert Staab wrote:
> Well, to put it bluntly, I'm a windows user that wants to install opie on
> my Ipaq 5455. I have had some experience with linux like unpacking
> binaries and package management, and other mundane things, but nowhere near
> the skills to compile opie and install it to my Ipaq from my windows
> machine....I have BackTrack and other livecd linux distros that I could use
> to compile things, If I only knew how. Please enlighten my idiotic state.

This is the sleepiest mailing list. I'm inclined to think there's no interest
in the project anymore.

Where'd everybody go?

I've always looked at OPIE as "KDE for my iPaq". Has everyone moved to some
other QT-for-handhelds project? Everyone converted to GTK (ach)?

Anyway, Robert. OPIE is not the whole project. OPIE is to the base Linux
system what X and KDE are to your desktop's Linux system.

In this case, most of us (I think!?) use as a base a Linux distribution for
handhelds called Familiar. You can download a version of Familiar with OPIE
or with . . . the GTK one, I forget what it's called.

But, for starters, you have to have an iPaq that is a supported device. You
will need to look on the project web site and make sure your iPaq is
supported. I see the following note:
" H51xx, H54xx, H55xx: The bootldr does not support the display or CF/PCMCIA,
so the root images must be installed via serial port."

The Serial install is not too hard, I've done it before. You'll have to buy a
serial cable for your iPaq, though.

Start here:
http://www.handhelds.org/geeklog/index.php

Pages that will interest you:
http://familiar.handhelds.org/
http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/v0.8.4/
http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/v0.8.4/install/

When you get to the download screen you'll be able to choose the stable
release, your hardware, and the version of Familiar with OPIE.

I strongly suggest you look around the whole familiar web site and certainly
read all the way through the installation docs before you start fiddling with
your hardware. You want to have a good understanding of the whole process
before you start.

I hope this helps a little.

        JW

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