Great New Z2 Userland from RootNexus
Although I've been spending my time on other hacking projects besides the Z2 lately, that does not mean there's nothing exciting happening in the Z2 community. Our friend SoundGuy has finished putting together his Z2 root image, and it is slick! After working out some of the kinks with help from our comments (they are practically forums now...) threads, SoundGuy posted up a link to his newest "For the Average User" userland image. Terrific work! He's really got a good eye for usability. More info after the break.
You can find more info on his page here, and downloads on his page here.
For those of you who know me, you know I don't accept donations and usually tell potential benefactors to send the money to Haiti or another developer who might need the money. Looks like RootNexus has got a paypal donate page up, and he's done some great work, so consider donating to support him and his work.
March 2nd, 2010 - 17:28
Hunter,
Thanks for getting back to me on this issue. I’m feeling a little lame about having so many issues. It’s never easy! I re-dd’d the sd card and tried to mount the device as an ext3 file system…same problem:
derolph@ubuntu:~/Desktop/zipit$ sudo dd if=debianZ2-diskimage-2G.img of=/dev/sdb1
3970048+0 records in
3970048+0 records out
2032664576 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 1924.19 s, 1.1 MB/s
derolph@ubuntu:~/Desktop/zipit$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /media/external
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try
dmesg | tail or so
Should I try mounting the device in another distribution other than Ubuntu? Is there something else that you think I can try? This is perplexing.
Thanks,
Dan
March 2nd, 2010 - 17:56
Hey Dan,
I think I see your problem. Your command should be:
sudo umount /dev/sdbsudo dd if=debian.img of=/dev/sdbBy adding the 1 to the end of sdb, you were overwriting only the first partition of the card. I think this may be your issue. Hope this helps, good luck!
March 2nd, 2010 - 20:27
Hunter,
That was the trick! After doing a dd, writing the image, mounting the device, and writing the gsp* files to the filesystem, I booted the zipit and logged in. After logging in, I did a startx and the “water drop” splash page came up. Couldn’t really do much from here, the mouse was frozen (I moved the z2mouse-option to /bin). I’ll play with it a little and see if I can get the mouse to work. Without X running, everything looks good!
Thank you very much for all you help!
Dan
March 3rd, 2010 - 12:11
Hey Dan,
Glad to hear it. Did you hit the smiley face button to change the mouse emu into mouse mode? That may be it for that. Glad to hear things are going well!!
March 9th, 2010 - 20:14
Looks great! Has anyone figured a way to set the mac address to something other than 00:50:43:02:FE:01? I am trying to use the Zipit on a school network and it seems someone has already registered the default mac.
March 11th, 2010 - 13:02
After trying physdiskgui over and over to no avail I found a great little program to get the img on the sd card called ALL Image. 14 day trial. Google it. Works great.