cmonex - 2005-04-27 11:36 AM
90right, please tell us about how well it's working. i'm most interested in power management. how well does jlime handle it?? thanks
cmonex,
It's fairly easy to install when you know how, i've put it on a 128mb card to start with, then i bought a 512mb card, i partitioned my disk using my linux box
(fdisk
), created 3 partitions, 1 dos fat 16 partition
(type 06
), 1 linux primary partition
(type 83
), 1 linux swap partition
(type 82
).
mounted the dos partition to a directory.
mounted the primary to a directory.
went to jlime and downloaded the shlo-hp680.exe, went into the shrek releases and downloaded jlime-shrek-RC5.tar.gz , and zImage-RC5.
Then i put the exe and the zImage into the dos partition, and gunzip tar xvf jlime-shrek-RC5.tar.gz into my primary partition.
Created a shlo.txt file in my dos partition
(vi shlo.txt
)
Added the following into the text file as so.........
-------------------------------------------
platform = hp680
boot page = 0x0c000000
load file = 0x0c210000 zImage-RC5
start address = 0x8c210000
set long = 0x8c001000 0 # MOUNT_ROOT_RDONLY
set long = 0x8c001004 0 # RAMDISK_FLAGS
set long = 0x8c001008 0x0100 # ORIG_ROOT_DEV
set long = 0x8c00100c 1 # LOADER_TYPE
set long = 0x8c001010 0x00400000 # INITRD_START
set long = 0x8c001014 0x00400000 # INITRD_SIZE
set string = 0x8c001100 mem=16M ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/hda2 devfs=nomount
---------------------------------------------
Saved the text file.
eject the mounted drives
(so linux doesn't hang
).
Removed my compact flash card from the reader, switched off the 680, slotted it in, and turned it on.
Went to the compact flash directory and double tapped the shlo.exe.
Waited for around 20 seconds before the magic of the penguin takes over.
login, insert my wireless card type cardmgr, card light flashes, stays on, ping www.google.co.uk and got a response.
ipkg update to retrieve all the package information.
ipkg install whatever you want
The battery lasts for around 6 hours fully on, the jlime guys haven't concentrated on power management but have a very stable kernel! If you cradle the beast it'll last forever
I'm sure they will work out how to switch it on and off soon.
The best thing is it opens up new browsers to us, and running opie
http://opie.handhelds.org/gallery/ you get a stylish front end.
One thing i must tell you about is that it resets your wince completely. So my recommendation is to get a new compact flash card and store all your wince information on there.
But i'm well chuffed, if you want more info then let me know i'm still learning the ropes, i'll try to install opie tonight and report back on my successes.
If you want to try it i recommend the RC5 release, it works like a dream.
chmod, ls, pwd, etc etc, it's another world
Rich
P.S Actually thinking about it with opie installed who needs wince?! It's got everything wince has plus a lot more. So it makes more sense to run wince as a failsafe system and run jlime on it all the time
Edited by 90right 2005-04-28 7:59 AM