InstallOpieDevel

= Steps to get latest Opie runing =

Install latest bootstrap for familiar
Image you can download from. You should choose right image for Your device. For Ipaq 3970 it is - bootstrap-latest-h3900.jffs2

To install do boot> load root

from bootloader serial console and give downloaded image.

After you get verifying ... formatting ... done. boot>

You can boot new system. Do boot> boot

!!! Before booting stop Networking on Your host. Latest familiar hangs on boot when usbnetwork connection is active on host side.

Booting could take long time...

Upgrade Ipaq to latest opie
After install on serial console you will get familiar login:

Enter root username with password rootme. (Sure You should change password on first logon.)

Before upgrading you should make usb network runing. Instructions You can find here.

For reference there will go some commands: root# ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 root# scp /etc/resolv.conf 192.168.0.202:/etc/resolv.conf

Next add opie unstable feed to ipkg.conf file src opie_unstable http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/unstable/familiar/gcc2/

Then goes commands for latest opie install ~ # ntpdate -b time.handhelds.org ~ # ipkg update ~ # ipkg install timezones ~ # ipkg -force-depends install task-opie

Some additional feeds
You can add some nice feeds for opie src 5thtoe http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/5thtoe/ src linux_solutions http://www.linux-solutions.at/projects/zaurus/feed/ src zaurus_user_group http://www.zaurususergroup.com/feed/ src gaim http://qpe-gaim.sourceforge.net/feed/release/ src shepherd http://www.sra.uni-hannover.de/~eilers/shepherd/feed/ src elkins http://elkins.org/zfeed/ src spy http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/handango/

packagemanager vs aqpkg
For now Aqpkg application behave strange with non english languages set and activly supported is opie packagemanager. There goes procedrue of replacement. First remove aqpkg: ~ # ipkg remove opie-aqpkg ~ # ipkg install opie-packagemanager

After previous operations you got ipkglib version 0.99.120. This is not what packagemanager needs. To upgrade so issue next command: ipkg install libipkg

Konqueror browser
To have working browser app you should take konqueror-snapshot-full from open zaurus feed