i guess that links to it ok i got familiar and gpe running on my ipaq h1915
the files i got from
http://handhelds.org/~joshua/aquadran/
i used vmware to load a knoppix cd image
then once in knoppix i went to vm on the top menu of vmware and removable ad usb and connected my hp psc 2210v usb printer to the linux vm by clicking on it
the printer has a sd card slot in the slot i put my 256 sd card
the params file from that website points to /dev/mmc/part3 for the root
so i opened qtparted in knoppix (its under settings on kde)
qtparted showed my sd card as /dev/sdb
it wouldnt let me resize when i tried to commit changes so here is the exact steps i took
i selected the main partition
i right clicked and went to delete
i selected the free space and right clicked it and selected create
i made a partition 64 megs in size fat16 called dos
i selected free space again and create and made a 80 meg ext2 partition called opie
i selected the remaining free space again and selected create ad made a ext2 partition called gpe
then i had to use the console lol
i opened the console (black screen on task bar)
i type su to log on as super user or "root"
then i used cd / to go to root directory
then i used cd mnt to go to mnt directory
then i used mkdir stick to make a directory called stick
then i used mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/stick to mount the third partition on sdb(sdcard) to /mnt/stick
then i copied the gpe.tar.gz2 to my desktop on knoppix (i made a iso containing all the files from aquadrans webspace using magic iso in windows then mounted it as the second cd drive in vmware so it automatically shows up as /mnt/cdrom1)
so in console i typed
cp /mnt/cdrom1/gpe/gpe.tar.bz2 /home/knoppix/Desktop/
it copid and notice in knoppix the d on desktop is capitalized (linux cares)
then i
cd /home/knoppix/Desktop
then i typed
ls
to make sure it was there
then i typed
bunzip2 gpe.tar.bz2
it made a tar file from the bz2 file
i used tar -xvf gpe.tar
and i couldnt figure out how to make it extract to a specific directory
so i used
cp gpe.tar /mnt/stick
to copy the tar file to the card on partition 3 (mounted to /mnt/stick)
then i used
cd /mnt/stick
to go there
then i used the same
tar -xvf gpe.tar
and it extracted on the card
then i used
cd /mnt
mkdir stickdos
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/stickdos
and these three commands mounted the dos partition on the card to /mnt/stickdos
then i copied the four files
cp /mnt/cdrom1/params /mnt/stickdos
"cdrom 1 is the image containing the files from aquadran"
cp /mnt/cdrom1/zimage /mnt/stickdos
cp /mnt/cdrom1/initrd_gui.gz /mnt/stickdos
cp /mnt/cdrom1/linexec1910.exe /mnt/stickdos
to the dos partition on my card
then (important) after the light on my card slot quit blinking i pulled it out
this is soooooo important because since the light was still blinking and i was done with what i had done (idle pc) this meant the card had write behind caching and hadnt actually finished all the write operations yet
then and finally then
i put it in my ipaq copied those four files to my documents on my ipaq and clicked linexec1910.exe
and bam there it was
yes its coming wait for it
if it doesnt for you go in to the params file and make it say console=tty0 instead of console=none
to see debug messages
but when you got it right you have to set it back to boot into gpe "cause of the x frame buffer method"
to the more technically inclined im sorry for the relentless noobishness of these directions i was just trying to make it well noobish
im still somewhat noobish myself but i figured this out on my own and it took me a while(i kept searching for options to do it in windows and basically found out vmware is the only way)
i tried putting it in the fat partitinon and making it just point to /dev/mmc/part1
it would do it maybe hardcoded links to part3 or just linux refusing to boot from a fat filesystem
though it detected it as a dos filesystem
i am not as noobish as these directions just wanted to help the noobs understand what they were doing
ill upload some more pics soon
im going to mount the second partition and extract the opie filesystem to it
but first im gonna figure out how to set the output directry for tar command so i dont have to copy the tar file there first just to make it extract there copying it all by hand is not feasible
then again i need to just look up the root password for x in knoppix cause i tried to do the copy extract etc but it wouldnt let me write to the card at all unless i was root
and in kde it kept asking me for a root password even though su command in console just made me root without asking me for a password wich made me think it was blank but kde wouldnt let me open file explorer as root unless i gave a password and blank didnt work
or a nother string of eranious attempts
root
knoppix
kde
etcc
so i used the console cause it gave me root acess as i needed
so will be posting opie pics soon
so far wince and gpe "familiar linux" can be run seperately
to run wince i just hard reset by holding power and reset on side
to run linux again i just copy the four file from storage card to my documents on ipaq then run linexec1910
and after i got opie extracted i can do the same with its four files the params file is really all that matters as far as choosing between gpe and opie i think cause it points to the root filesystem
so i should be able to have pocket pc gpe linux and opie linux on the same ipaq 1915
right now do have both gpe and pocket pc 2002
p.s. i noticed and photo'd a pic of where it says wireless cfg in settings ???? i think sdio support might be native to this familiar linux distro
if not
the c++ code is available for writing a sdio driver for pxa255
its just a matter of time now
got to drag out those pdfs i had