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