I also was confused by the intructions at
http://www.acetolyne.net/Projects/node/17
The confusion was partly because I was very new to Linux...
(I learned a few things, since then... but I've probably forgotten at least that much.
)
...and partly because the instructions may have some errors.
On the Linux computer that I used to setup the JLime CF card, I had to put "sudo" at the beginning of several of the command lines.
Some of the command line examples may have small errors. Somehow, I stumbled on the right thing to do... I'm sorry that I did not keep a record of changes that I may have made.
Of course, you have to keep track of which partition you are working with
(sda, sdb, sdc, sdc-1, sdc-2, etc.
)
I setup JLime, on a 1 GB CF card, which was formatted as follows:
- Fat16 - 10 MB
- ext 2 - 873 MB
- linux-swap - 123 MB
After the installation is complete,
The Fat16 partition contains: jlinexec.exe, params.txt, zimage
The ext2 partition contains the following directories: bin, boot, dev, etc, home, lib, lost+found, media, mnt, opt, proc, sbin, sys, temp, tmp, usr, var, zimage
and one file: icewm-image-Mongo-08.07.08.tar
(This file probably can be deleted.
)
These directories are created as you follow the instructions, to decompress and install. Otherwise, you will just have the 5 downloaded files.
After getting JLime to work on the 1 MB CF card, I copied the contents of these partitions to an 8 GB CF card, which is formatted:
- Fat16 - 4 GB
- ext 2 - 3.9 GB
- linux-swap - 100 MB
(numbers are approximate
)
On the 8 GB CF, the Fat16 partition also includes my Windows CE directories, including the Win CE backup file. This makes it easy to go back to WinCE. I like some of my WinCE programs better than the comparable Linux programs.
If you are looking for better internet browsers, you may be disappointed with what is available for JLime. However, JLime works well with SSH.
In some forum posts, I have read that JLime does not run on certain CF cards. Somewhere there is a list of CF cards that are known to work. My 1GB CF card is by SimpleTech. The 8GB CF card is generic
(no known brand
). The 8GB card is noticeably slower, for transferring files on my computer, but it seems to run JLime about as well as the 1GB card does.
Also, at least one forum post suggests that JLime may not work with an SD card and adapter. See
http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=13323&po...Edited by Dave Wurm 2018-01-09 1:36 AM