Specifications

SHARP CORPORATION
Sharp SL-series Zaurus “Qtopia” Development Start-up Guide
Ver 1.11, February 28, 2003, 46/63
3.2. Transferring the ipk package to the SL-series Zaurus
In order to install the application’s ipk package to the SL-series Zaurus, there are a couple of ways to do so. In
any case, you need to “transfer” the ipk file to the device itself or to a memory media that can be plugged into the
device. In order to do so, you may choose one or more of the following ways that best fits to your environment:
1. CF memory card, or SD memory card
2. LAN (by NFS)
3. Synchronization Software (comes with the SL-series Zaurus)
3.2.1. Copying the ipk package to CF memory card, or SL memory card
As the SL-series Zaurus has a CF card type-II slot and a SD card slot, the easiest way of installing the application
ipk package is to use these memory cards. You may simply copy the ipk package to its designated directory. Note
that these memory cards need to be FAT16 formatted.
The following is an example of the command that you need to execute on your PC-Linux to copy the .ipk package
to the memory cards. The following example assumes the device name of the memory card is /dev/hdc1, and its
mount point is /mnt/card.
$ mount –t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/card
$ cp qpe-test_0.1-1_arm.ipk /mnt/card
To eject the memory card after copying the ipk package, you may want to execute the following command. You
may also want to execute sync command to completely output the date to the file:
$ sync
$ umount /mnt/card
NOTE) The file names will need to be recognizable within the SL-series Zaurus file system; make sure that the file
name is qualified as follows: characters must be 1 byte, "A - Z" (capital), "0 - 9", and "_"(underscore)
When completed, just insert the memory card to the SL-series Zaurus. The SL-series Zaurus will automatically
detect the memory card when inserted and a card icon will appear on the task bar. The memory card will be
automatically mounted at the following mount points:
CF Card
./var/mnt/cf
SD Card
./var/mnt/card