Is there a linux guru on this forum that can help my mount a .squashfs file? or in any way, copying a squashfs file to my SD card? (or any mounted device/partition) I can't seem to find out how all by myself, because I don't use linux that much yet. (I will be using it quite a bit more, becuase, when I'm able to mount that squashfs stuff, I'll be able to make my palm Tungsten E2 run QPE (It's already loading the kernel and stuff, but I need a root filesystem to go on from there... and that root filesystem is in that squashfs file )
I believe you just need SquashFS and Loopback device support in the kernel, then you should be able to mount the image. I don't think its in the vanilla kernel as yet so you'll need a 3rd party kernel or patch the kernel yourself. If you've already doen all that, what errors are you getting?
hmm, haven't tried patching any kernels, because I still don't have an installed linux distro... using Ubuntu Live CD for now, but thanks for the info!
This suggests the live CD does have support for SquashFS. This suggests that there is support for SquashFS in the repositories. On Debian Code: simon@work:~$ apt-cache search kernel-patch-squashfs kernel-patch-squashfs - Squash filesystem support for Debian Linux kernels
lol. that's right, but the version I'm running is 5.04, which most likely doesn't have SquashFS (5.04 is the version they distributed free of charge, and I just grabbed a CD from my drawer, because knoppix (of which I just downloaded the newest release version) didn't find my cardreader)
I will but I think I don't want to mount that squashfs file anymore... Many people think GPE isn't working fast enaugh, and since Opie is running slow already (my PDA is only 200MHz fast) I don't think I want to switch... Does anybody know how to patch APM into a kernel, that works with my PDA?
