Fwd: When I try to flash my Zaurus, the lights flash and nothing is written. What's wrong?

Jim Siburt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.zaurus.general
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> From: Bogdan Brudiu <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed Aug 27, 2003  8:07:24 AM US/Eastern
> Subject: [Zaurus-general] When I try to flash my Zaurus, the lights 
> flash and nothing is written. What's wrong?
>
> Hello,
>         I have a Sharp Zaurus 5500, and until now I have only 
> installed Sharp
> official distributions (I did not have a CF)... it originally came 
> with 2.37,
> i have installed 2.38 and then 3.10. Now I have a CF 128Mb and I want 
> to
> install OpenZaurus...
>         I formated my cf (mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/hda1) and the 
> checked that it
> is fat 16 (fsck.vfat), I have downloaded 
> zImage-5500-32memory-32storage.bin ,
> and rename it to zImage, and the downloaded initrd.bin, i have copy 
> the file
> in the root of my cf, i have checked the md5sum and it whas OK, and 
> then I
> have fallowed the flash procedure (open the battery compartment lid, 
> press C
> and D keys while pressing FULL RESET button).
>         I am absolutely sure that I have do this thing right but 
> the email and
> battery led are flashing, what is it wrong? Is it possible that the CF 
> is not
> compatible? The CF is working OK I am using it in a Digital Camera and 
> I have
> use it to store mp3 for Z and is working OK.
>         Please help me.
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Bogdan
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