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Zaurus

Here's my page of stupid Zaurus tricks.

Swap in RAM

Here's step-by-step instructions for building a swapfile in ram so you can have more memory available for applications...

Decide how much swap you want. You can always change it later painlessly. I went with 8 megs.
Open up the terminal/console
Create the swapfile with the dd command:
```
dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/root/swapfile bs=1024 count=8192
```
That will create an 8 meg file. Change the "count" field to whatever size you like.
Format the swapfile with the following command:
```
mkswap /home/root/swapfile
```
Make linux recognize and utilize the swapfile:
```
swapon /home/root/swapfile
```
Run the "free" command, to make sure the swapfile is properly recognized and running.
Add the swap to the startup scripts. Add "swapon /home/root/swapfile" to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local with vi or some other text editor, then:
```
cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
ln -s ../rc.local S49local
```

You'll now have an 8 meg swapfile in the storage area. Since the swap is just as fast as the normal ram, you shouldn't see any performance degradation when "swapping".

XavierXeon's Stuff

He's having website issues, so I'm hosting some of his stuff here temporarily.

Busybox 0.60.3 with handy installer scripts.

Sysinfo replacement, nicest version I've seen, shows swap and proc's, but removes "version" tab to clean up the top.

Files

Random archive of random Zaurus programs collected from random places can be found here.

2001 Brad Hall