Comments on: New Video – From Stock Z2 to Fully Flashed with Audio, Fluxbox, Mouse, Aliosa27’s Latest Userland

By: hunter

hunter — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:48:46 +0000

Hey Tinner,

Yeah if you see the penguin the flash worked, and it’s probably just searching for the userland on the sd card.

By: hunter

hunter — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:48:07 +0000

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.

By: untuned

untuned — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:15:04 +0000

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

By: Tinner

Tinner — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:32:12 +0000

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.

By: hunter

hunter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:58:41 +0000

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!

By: John

John — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:55:18 +0000

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.

By: hunter

hunter — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:41:35 +0000

hey John,

If this is the debian userland, yeah that’s your problem. It needs to be unmounted, then you use DD to write the disk image to the SD card.

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:50:21 +0000

I’m using a Ubuntu livecd. I didn’t use dd at all I just extracted the userland image onto the card as root. I’m not sure if it was mounted or not. Which should it be?

Thank you for replying so quickly

By: hunter

hunter — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:37:01 +0000

Hey John,

This has been asked earlier on in this and another comments thread. When you unpacked the filesystem to the SD card, did you use DD or psydiskwrite? If you were on linux, did you do it as root? Was the SD card mounted at the time? These are things to look into. Hope it helps, good luck!

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:48:09 +0000

Hi, I followed your (excellent!) directions to flash my zipit z2, But it looks like something went awry somewhere.
I flashed it successfully(?) and unpacked the filesystem onto the sd card. Now my zipit will boot to the Open Zipit logo but doesn’t seem to do anything else. The flashing lights you mentioned in your video are not flashing on the zipit and it’s been over an hour and still nothing but the logo. By the way I’m using a microsd card inside a microsd adapter. I read elsewhere that that should still work but now I’m not sure

Any help you can give is greatly appreciated even if someone can just point me in the right direction.