Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Ken Seehart enlightened us with: > >>1. How do I know whether to use sharprom or modern? > > If it works, use it.
That makes sense :) >>2. What do I do with ipk files? I surfed around and found that in >>one example, the command is "ipkg install foo.ipk", but ipkg doesn't >>seem to exist on my hardware. > > ipkg doesn't have anything to do with your hardware. It's just a shell > script. Anyway, an ipkg file is nothing more than a tarball with a > certain content. > Sybren That was a dumb way for me to put it :) What I mean is that the linux installation on my hardware is so stripped down I don't have various files such as ipkg. It's helpful to know that ipkg is a shell script instead of a binary, but I am also missing tar, ar, and gcc (which I assume I need libraries from). I could try to unpack them on another (non-ARM7) linux box and then move the files over to the ARM7 device. Better yet, can I unpack them on windows XP somehow? If for some reason that is not possible, i suppose my next step is to find a compatible ARM7 linux installation to unpack on another machine to steal files from. Unfortunately I don't have access to another ARM7 computer, and I don't have room for a full linux installation on the ARM7 device that I am working with (it has a total of 4MB). It there an easy to obtain the files I need without attempting to reintall linux? The files I know about are: libgcc1 (>= 3.4.3) (exact file name unknown) libc6 (>= 2.3.2+cvs20040726) (exact file name unknown) ipkg (the shell script) tar ar (any other commands that ipkg runs) - Ken -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
