this is the hole package for Linux
(Psion LX! not GPE!
) on a netbook pro and developement!
it is written for the special Netbook Pro version with 256mb RAM but its also working on normal ones...
i think the howto is somewhere in this threat how to use it... you can install it in nand but i prefered to run it on a CF card.
(simply because the wince will be untouched
).
Again the Howto:
first of all u'll need linux on your pc to partition the CF
(in the example your cf card is /dev/hde, the CF should have 256mb or more to work nicely with LX
):
- cfdisk /dev/hde
- Check the partition list looks right - 'Q'uit if it doesn't
- 'D'elete the exisiting partitions
- Create 'N'ew partition,
('P'rimary at the 'S'tart, size with 5MB or more
)
- Set the 'T'ype to '06'
(DOS FAT16
)
- Set it 'B'ootable
(although this is not important here
)
- Create another 'N'ew partition
('P'rimary, at the 'S'tart, filling the rest of the disk
(the default size
)
)
- the Type defaults to Linux
(i.e. ext2
) now 'W'rite that partition table to actually make the changes
Now the nBkProOs.img comes on the FAT partition and the soho-image-netbook-pro-20050104074212.rootfs.tar.bz2 will be extracted directly on the ext2!
basicly... thats it.
just insert the cf, hardreset the netbook and press strg+d+esc til linux loads... it takes some time to lows but works
for a GPE Linux:
-
http://linuxtogo.org/~florian/nBkProOs.img_cf
-
http://linuxtogo.org/~florian/netbook/gpe-image-3.5.4.1-netbook-pro.rootfs.jffs2
the installing on cf is more difficult:
the nBkProOs.img_cf must be renamed to nBkProOs.img and must be placed on the fat like with Psion LX. but the jffs2 must be extracted like this:
modprobe loop
modprobe mtdblock
modprobe mtdram total_size=32768 erase_size=256
mkdir /dev/mtdblock ; for i in 0 1 2 3 ; do mknod /dev/mtdblock/$i b 31 $i; done
dd if=gpe-image-3.5.4.1-netbook-pro.rootfs.jffs2 of=/dev/mtdblock/0
mkdir /mnt/jffs2
mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock/0 /mnt/jffs2
and than copied with:
cp -a /mnt/jffs2/* /media/disk/
(in the case the ext2 partition of the cd is mounted at /media/disk
)
then edit /media/disk/etc/init.d/checkversion and put some # before each line.
and now again like with LX: strg+d+esc.
i hope this helps
