Ugh.
Ok, I am not even going to try going through this in order. The site has a direct link to forums.720degrees.net , I do not know why you had a problem with that. It referenced this forum ages ago - I will have that removed later.
To eject pcmcia cards in 2.4, use cardctl eject, to insert afterwards, use cardctl insert. Yes, it can be done automatically; it is called downloading the 2.6 base instead. I know the reason why many users got 2.4 is because I compiled the tslib wrong for 2.6, but 2.4 is filled with a lot of problems I no longer want to spend time dealing with. It is deprecated, and that is all I want to say about it. However, I will get a better 2.4 kernel on the site when I can.
MaxTakeoff: It seems that you believe the first FAT partition must be 10mb, and that you have to put an extra FAT partition way after. It is doubtful CE would see the second FAT partition, and you are free to make the first one whatever size you want. Mine is 4mb, yours should be 300mb
(according to the amount of space you wanted for CE
).
Yes, ext2 is very good at getting errors on cf cards. I just disabled the check for my cf card
(I'll try to find something better later
), but it seems fsck never really fixes the problem
(probably because it keeps happening at the exact same inode
). If you had a microdrive, the quick fix would be ext3. However, on the 2.6 kernel, once you actually pass the fsck, it doesn't bother you for a while
(like it should
), as long as you set the date after the first startup
(I would recommend apt-get ntpdate and finding a good timeserver
). I see that you were lucky and your problem actually went away...there seems to be many problems with ext2 and the 720. Maybe I will stumble across the reason later. Once again Chazco, there is no reason to notify the Jlime developers. The new kernel which we both use does not have this problem.
As far as the GUI, we made it obvious on the site that we have our own repository, and clear instructions to point yourself there. You can then apt-get xserver-kdrive and get a GUI. GPE and OPIE on the Debian repository are always broken, and we will make our own packages for those later.
For an mp3 player, apt-get mocp or get madplay.
In the future, you would get a much faster reply if you posted on the 720degrees forums. But we might as well continue this thread, as many people seem to be getting involved.
I'm sorry that you had to go through downloading the sarge base, I have been trying to get snickers to remove that disaster off the site since he put it up there
(and it did not work at all
).
Suspend is quickly getting better with 2.6, and I'll fix that ridiculous touchscreen problem as soon as it compiles.
Sorry for this rather unorganized reply, but that is what happens when I enter ten posts into a thread.
And I would like to state that the release of Mongo will not solve a single problem, since we use the
exact same kernel. However, this only applies to the 2.6 720degrees base, which already fixes a few of the problems which you have experienced. The installer may fix the ext2 problem, but I am not sure. If fsck continues to bother users, I will just disable it.
I just noticed though that the sound isn't working yet so I will have to struggle on with the 2.4 until that gets straightened out. 
