Michal Panczyk wrote: > Hello Harmon, > > >> From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [Angstrom-distro-users] h2200 full 99% >> To: [email protected] >> >> I installed the x11-image on my h2200, and finally got usbnet to route > > How did you install it ? More precisely - where : on internal flash, > SD card or CF card ? If you installed it on internal flash I would > like to know which image you used (could you give exact link ? ) I > would _really_ like to know that.
I installed it to internal flash. http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/releases/2007.12/images/h2200/Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-h2200.rootfs.jffs2 >> to the internet, so did the "ipkg update" and "ipkg upgrade", both of >> which completed successfully. Then did "ipkg install gnome-mplayer" but >> that ended in failure when the machine ran out of room. > Are you sure you need gnome-mplayer ? I am not sure but gnome sounds > like a large number of apps to be installed - most of them not really > in the "embedded" size. > >> I've tried removing a few uneeded packages, like the hermes and >> orinoco modules but that hasn't really emptied much. Are there files >> left from the upgrade downloads that I need to remove? Like in debian, >> you do an "apt-get clean" and remove all the downloaded files. > > I am not sure if it also affects angstrom but on openwrt (embedded > distro for wireless routers) once the device ran out of space there > was no other rescue than new install. That was because some bug in > ipkg.... Yes, that's the conclusion I came to -- just re-did the install. Also tried using the gpe-minimilist version, but that seems almost non-functional, or rather a little too minimilist -- I couldn't even get usb networking going on that, got g_ether module installed finally, from a cf card, but doing a modprobe g_ether hangs the system. >> Otherwise, what to do for more room? I know ipkg-link is not used >> here. Can I move some files to a SD card and link to them? I've done >> that in other distros, with varying success. Usually have problems with >> symbolic links not copying over, etc. > > I am not sure of your install method. Judging from your posts on > h2200-port and familiar you installed angstrom on internal flash (I > guess). Do you know that you can install it on preformed (ext2) SD/CF > card (it would take a while to chock up ie 2 GB card...). Sure. I could, but then that interferes with my switching sd and cf cards. And since I want to use the sd cards mainly for mp3s and the like, and use the cf slot for wifi and gps, internal flash is best option if I can get it to work. I don't care if I about a lot of the linux apps for this, it will be almost entirely used for playing music and gpsdrive. > Also you > don't need to install LAB for that - there's Haret, that can boot > linux form WinCE. Marcus Brutus would probably point you to > RamdiscRescue as an easiest installation method - have a look at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ramdisk-rescue. Yes, well, I've been running unix variants for 20 years now, and hate windoze with a purple passion, so it is very difficult for me to tolerate any microsloth presence on any hardware I own. 8-) > > If you have a problem with getting rid of LAB have a look at: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.h2200/3178/focus=3180 > > As it goes for symbolic links - are you trying to apply links to file > system that supports linking (FAT variations do not have that > feature....). No, what I meant was that I've tried moving /usr to other partitions or drives on other distros, usually because I was playing around with various esoteric file systems, like reiser (when it was new) or reiser4 or whatever. There are, however, in the /usr/libs and /usr/libexec and maybe other places, I can't recall -- quite a few symbolic links already in the file system. When you copy over all those directories, the links break. Or at least I've never found a way that doesn't break them. Usually I do a "find . -depth | cpio -pdm /new-directory-whatever it is" Anyway, it is a major PITA to go through all those files and dirs looking for the broken links and repairing them, and you don't have any X windows until it's done. If someone knows a way to do it that works better, please let me know. -- Harmon Seaver _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
