Re: Debian on Zaurus works, what now?

"W. Borgert" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.3com-pilot
Message-ID <20040121202033.GA824__42337.1484423571$1074716478@knorke>
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:46:46PM -0600, Klaus Weidner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:28:44PM +0100, W. Borgert wrote:
> > I have an SL-5500G.  There were error messages, but I don't
> > remember them.  I think the socket connection failed, so
> > maybe the X server didn't start.  Sorry.
>
> - the new OZ versions mount the SD/MMC and CF cards in a secure mode with
>   device files disabled, which unfortunately completely breaks the chroot
>   environment. A symptom is that you get weird messages about devices
>   such as /dev/null not working, and you may just get a blank X11 screen
>   without any user interface.
> 
>   As a workaround, run the following from the command line:
> 
> 	mount /mnt/card -o remount,dev,suid,exec

I'm pretty sure, that I did this, because I start Debian in
a short script and this line is in the script.

> haven't done so already, I'd highly recommend using a kernel
> configuration that makes most memory available to applications, rather
> than the 32MB/32MB memory/RAMdisk default split.

I'm using the zImage-SL-5500-40memory-24storage.bin from OZ 3.2.

Cheers,
-- 
W. Borgert <[email protected]>
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