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Old 04-30-2005, 03:18 PM   #16
dudeman420
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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
 
Old 04-30-2005, 03:20 PM   #17
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aquadrans site is down i guess ill have to upload what i got somewhere i got the entire gpe and opie directory
 
Old 04-30-2005, 07:17 PM   #18
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Here's a thought: instead of lobbying for HP to create a Linux distro, refuse to buy their products and lobby for others to do likewise. Instead buy only those machines that are Linux supported and from companies who provide open source drivers or what is needed for developers to create open source drivers.

Before I buy any machine, I make certain that's it's Linux compatible or I don't buy it. If enough people and companies begin doing this perhaps the HPs of the world will wake up and realize that windoze isn't the only OS out there.

I really don't think we need yet another corporate distro.
 
Old 05-03-2005, 03:17 PM   #19
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we dont need hp to make one
http://www.albumtown.com/showpic.php...260&pid=364371

there is it running with full support for everything except usb thats all we need
 
Old 05-15-2005, 05:27 AM   #20
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I have an HP compaq nc6000 and everything works well including the AC'97 win modem and the Intel 2100 3b wirless device. I have not tried the bluetooth 'cos I dont yet have any bluetooth devices.

There are only two things that, I feel, need real work:
- The ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility has absolutely no 3D support in Linux (at all, anywhere! as far as I can tell)
- and the standard laptop feature Sleep/Hibernate/ACPI etc needs to made a real lot easier this I thing requires HP or the BIOS manufacturer to get with the programme.

Ritchie
 
Old 05-15-2005, 05:30 AM   #21
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Me again,

I forgot to say that I currently use SuSE 9.1 on my HP compaq nc6000 and SuSE 7.2 on my "really" old generic P120 desktop box.

Regards

Ritchie
 
Old 05-15-2005, 05:19 PM   #22
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check out this link, granted it's not in the U.S. but still...
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...12_124421.html
 
Old 10-28-2005, 01:01 PM   #23
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For those with the NC6000's... the ATI Rage Mobility drivers for Linux work and install great. Glxgears increases from about 150fps to 1175fps.

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...ge&folderID=27
 
  


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