Zipit Z2 Tutorial - Flashing and installing from Stock Z2 to audio, fluxbox, mouse emulator and more

Описание: Information re-posted from www.hunterdavis.com . I walk you through the process of flashing a stock Z2 to the newest linux kernel and aliosa27 userland. Mp3 (alsa)audio, fluxbox, mouse emulator demonstrated.

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\n
A microSD card

Do you have everything ready? Lets get to it,

1. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/openz... and downloaded the autoflasher
2. Download Aliosa27s new kernel image and userland
3. Grab the latest mouse emu
4. Using Gparted, Format your microSD to a fat16 partition (I did 300 megs but you really need much less than 100
5. Extract the autoflasher to the fat16 partition
6. (as root)Extract the kernel + userland image somewhere on your pc
7. From the extracted files, copy out the ./bin/zImage-2.6.29 to the root of your microSD as kernel.bin
8. Boot the Z2 and allow it to flash and reboot to the new Linux logo
9. This will also make a copy of your original kernel and wifi firmware, copy them off the microSD somewhere safe
10. Using Gparted, Format the microSD into 2 new partitions, ext2 (the majority of the card) and swap (the remaining 256 megs)
11. Rename and copy the wifi firmware back to the Z2 as described at sourceforge