Hi Harry, I just bought a Zaurus a week or so ago (an even more archaic SL-5000D), trust me you'd be doing well to invest in a memory card reader for trying out new ROMs, or indeed modifying them to your tastes, you should easily pick one up for under a tenner. In the week I've had mine (and I stress I'm NOT a proper Linux head) I've had four different ROMs on it to try - the 5500 has a bigger selection than the 5000 tho - more memory y'see. Cacko seems to be about the most robust for mine from the little collection of ROMs my Z's last owner gave me. Other idea: I picked up a brand new CF 802.11b card (Netgear MA701 - works out of the box with the Z) on eBay for around twenty quid, and got the Z talking to my main box and laptop, so I suppose if you're wirelessed up you could get the ROM from another machine (or indeed from the net), dump it in the Z or on the SD card, then copy it onto your CF card. It's all good fun - I'm off to figure out how I can convince my other half to allow me to buy a C3100 now! Ron --- Harry Halpin <hhalpin@xxx.xxx.xxx> wrote: > > Congrats on the Install day! I was very impressed. > So impressed I joined > the list-serv. > > I'm Harry (some of you may remember me as the grad > student that helped > set-up the RMS talk a while back...). > > I have two problems that I could use some help with: > > 1) While it's an archaic PDA, I just got a Sharp > Zaurus 5500 and would > like to install OpenZaurus on it (the free version > of Sharp's native > OS). However, to install it I need to put the image > on a compact flash > card, since the 5500 doesn't have USB. Does anyone > have a compact flash > card reader plugged into a live Linux install that > has internet > connectivity? If I could use it for a bit that would > be great. > > 2) Second, is anyone here experienced with encrypted > partitions? I have > a USB key that I'd like to set-up to with one > unencrypted partition (for > my mail private key, so I can literally always have > it with me) and one > encrypted partition. I followed the directions on: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 > > And I've just managed to nuke my USB key's > partition, that's about it, > such that it can't automount anymore. Anyone in > EdLug ever done this? > Encrypted partitions are rather new to me, and I'm > not really grokking > dm-crypt quite yet... > > cheers, > harry > > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can find the EdLUG mailing list FAQ list at: > http://www.edlug.org.uk/list_faq.html > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos ? NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find the EdLUG mailing list FAQ list at: http://www.edlug.org.uk/list_faq.html
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