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New Video – From Stock Z2 to Fully Flashed with Audio, Fluxbox, Mouse, Aliosa27’s Latest Userland
Here is a video Mark and I made of the complete flashing and installation process, and a tour of the new userland features.
For those following along at home, the required setup artifacts are below. You will need
- Your zipit z2
- A linux computer with an internet connection (to download the packages below) and gparted installed
- A microSD card
Do you have everything ready? Let's get to it!
- Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/openzipit and downloaded the autoflasher
- Download Aliosa27's new kernel image and userland here
- Grab the latest mouse emu from here
- Using Gparted, Format your microSD to a fat16 partition (I did 300 megs but you really need much less than 100
- Extract the autoflasher to the fat16 partition
- (as root)Extract the kernel + userland image somewhere on your pc
- From the extracted files, copy out the ./boot/zImage-2.6.29 to the root of your microSD as kernel.bin
- Boot the Z2 and allow it to flash and reboot to the new Linux logo
- This will also make a copy of your original kernel and wifi firmware, copy them off the microSD somewhere safe
- Using Gparted, Format the microSD into 2 new partitions, ext2 (the majority of the card) and swap (the remaining 256 megs)
- Rename and copy the wifi firmware back to the Z2 as described here
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January 21st, 2010 - 18:55
Okay I’ve been doing some more looking around and everyone keeps mentioning a disk image or an .img file.
What i did was download the kernel + userland image you linked. Then I extracted it using “7z e zipit2-audio+x+mouse.gz” on my linux box with 7zip. Now in alll the directions I see it seems now I should have image file of some kind. Instead I have another tar archive. If I extract that I get a linux filesystem; /boot /proc /var /etc. All of that. So I extracted that onto my sd card and nothing happens when I try to boot it.
January 21st, 2010 - 18:58
Hi John,
I would recommend you download either the 1g or 2g image from the sourceforge page. That’s the new debian userland and it’s pretty good. Also another user here is going to post a new userland to the SF page soon, so that’s another to try. For the file that you have I would make sure that when you extracted the file you did so as root, onto an sd card that’s been cleared of space, is formatted to ext2 or 3. Hopefully that’ll do it. Good luck!
January 28th, 2010 - 16:32
Did it flash properly?
I get a Wannabe Penguin in the left corner but no cursor or anything else on the screen. 2 green lights are on.
That’s it.
February 21st, 2010 - 00:15
Hi
I’m having issues with windows seeing the sd card after i have flashed the image using physgui. The computer says the card needs to be formatted and ex2fsd seems sees the card but no partitions. I’ve tried two sd cards so i must be doing something wrong can anyone help
February 21st, 2010 - 07:48
Hey untuned,
After writing the image using psydiskwrite, you should be good to go. I’m kind of suprised ext2fsd doesn’t like it, but I know windows has trouble sometimes with sd cards with multiple partitions. Have you tried the card in the zipit? It’s quite possible you are doing nothing wrong.
February 21st, 2010 - 07:48
Hey Tinner,
Yeah if you see the penguin the flash worked, and it’s probably just searching for the userland on the sd card.