tuxish wrote:

Some people seem to have Opie running on their E3 yet I can find no information wse anywhere on the internet on how to do this.

If this information does exist and I've just missed it, could someone reply with a link or alternatively reply with information on how to do this.

I have a USB drive (1GB) that I could format and chroot into or set as the root fs at boot however I cannot find a root filesystem and when I plug it in whilst using the root fs on the earth.li wiki, it doesn't appear in /dev thus 'mount /dev/sda /mnt' will not work.

Hi Tuxish,

As the person who got Opie working initially, I suspect I am probably best placed to answer this. As far as I know, no binary releases of Opie have been made available publically, and my build machine is currently about 150 miles away from me so it is non-trivial for me to rebuild a copy at the present time. I do however have a set of patches against OpenEmbedded (from 12th April 2006 - which is the last time I had chance to look at the E3 in earnest unfortunately), which are at http://hu.gs/pub/E3/OpenEmbedded-patches-interim/. These patches will probably need some updating to cope with more recent OpenEmbedded (see http://www.openembedded.org) releases, however once you have applied the patches, I think building an Opie image is approximately just a matter of running bitbake opie-image.

When I get appropriate tuits (which will probably not be until sometime next year), I will try to update the openembedded patches and possibly release some binary images.

Thanks, let me know how you get on

David