[SOLVED] OPIE Linux on Palm Tungsten E2 With GParted [SOLVED] (Page 3 of 4)

Short instruction :

1. Forget "GParted" at the moment.
2. Launch "Puppy Linux"
3. Attach your SDHC card
4. Wait a moment, until its 3 icons appear on the desktop, single-click on sd.3 (maybe sda3, sdb3 or else), compare what you see with my print-out. If you see folder icons, I would expect the following :
bin, boot, dev, etc, home, lib, lost+found, media, mnt, opt, proc, sbin, sys, temp, usr, var
If so, open folder "bin" and look, that it is not empty. If this is true, congratulations ... you did a good job, and I was wrong with my negative assumption, proceed with step 5.
Probably however, you see only one file : "new_image.ext2" ... just MOVE it back to "my-documents" per drag and drop ( both two file manager windows open ).
Click on the Terminal icon, type

mkdir /mnt/ext2
[RETURN-key]
mount -o loop /root/my-documents/new_image.ext2 /mnt/ext2
[RETURN-key]

Verify the successful operation : Open "Home"-icon, click icon "Parent Folder", click "mnt", click "ext2". You should see all 16 above mentioned folders. Right-click "Select All Files" (maybe there is also an icon). Open "sd.3", drag source-package, drop to "sd.3", select "MOVE". All files and folders should be transferred.

5. Verify "sd.1" (vfat), structure must be as shown in my last post.

6. Shutdown "Puppy Linux", saving your personal profile.

7. Try to boot the Palm again with the SD card.

Good luck, maybe it works flawlessly.

cmdr

Hello Zam478,

what did you type to console ( first line ):

a. mkdir /mnt/ext2 (correct)
b. mkir /mnt/ext2 (typo) ?

If Num Lock is disabled (default), [ENTER] in the Num key block does not work, use [RETURN] instead or enable Num Lock!

Note, that Linux does not use the backslash in paths; it is instead a "magic-hood" for characters, which else would act as control signs, cf. Regular Expressions.

Do not type comments ( starting with "#" until Line Feed).

New intermediate steps
===============

2+. Verify, that file "new_image.ext2" has 110 MB (with console commands)

("l" is 2 times lower-case "L"; command corresponds to DOS "dir"-command)

4+.

As an alternative to the graphical file manager, you can also verify with console commands, whether "new_image.ext2" got mounted.

Since you already changed directory to "/mnt/ext2", type

Now, we also copy with console command

5. (New, use this instead): Verify vfat-partition

"sdd1" can't be empty, because you already successfully launched cocoboot / zImage.

Please follow exactly my instructions in its given sequence and avoid any typo, don't omit or add something.

You are so close to success !
cmdr

Hello ZAM478,
done as ordered.

I would bet, that it's empty or that you forgot to mount "sdd1" before copying. Empty files get not copied in Linux, unmounted drives do not store anything. Rewrite "linux.boot.cfg" with "geany" and store it directly on the mounted "sdd1" root folder. Do not unplug mounted drives, u(n)mount them first (right-click on desktop icon).

Regards
cmdr

Ok, Now that I've got straightened out (thanks bye the way!) I have a NEW error message! Here is what it says:

It looks different then the prevous ones, so I decided I should write all of it!
Thank You Again!
~ Zam478

I actually never got that new_image.ext2 file to turn into 16 files, it never worked... Also, do you know of an OPIE forum? You said I already did, but I forgot! lol So if you know that one, please say!

I'm saying I only copied the one file of new_image.ext2 to the .ext2 partition, and I am wondering if I NEED this to do it, becuase it never seems to work for me...

Hello Zam478,

"Mounting" means to make the content of a file system accessible for Linux. Maybe it's a drive image (a file), a real drive or a network drive.

It's definitely proven, that this procedure is wrong (low Palm memory; instructions on "handheld.org"). What do you expect? A miracle ?

In my recent instructions, I had various verification steps, which should give you a control, whether something went wrong and what. You did not give any feedback about these intermediate steps... except the overall result : no boot.

What should I do, what would you do in my stead now?

Baffled
cmdr

In a Linux (bash) script, "#" is the comment sign. Everything, that follows until end of line is discarded.
Terminal/Console within "Puppy Linux" uses this same sign as single prompt (where your input gets written); but what would you think of a program, that ignores all your inputs ? In other words : it doesn't have the feared effect, except YOU use it a second time within your input line.

cmdr

Ok I just tried booting, here is what it says:

And now that I look at my last post that I wrote down what it said, I notice that it's the exact same. I guess I didn't remember the Kernel Panic part... Oh well, it's always good to have a copy of what it said close at hand!

I also noticed the size issue, so I increased the size to 150 MB (it's a 256MB card, so I just made it the size of the rest of the card). Also, the Linux-swap partition doesn't come up. It goes SDD*1 and then SDD*3. No SDD*2.
* - This letter may be SDB, SDC, SDD, etc.

Hello Zam478,
then BOOT THE PALM !

cmdr

Hello Zam478,

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
... and don't forget to put [SOLVED] to the thread title.

So long
cmdr