I've put together a Getting Started Guide, that might be of use to some of the 770 newbies here, including how to install Xterm and SSH, how tether to EDGE phones, how to install mapper, how to install gizmo, and I've also come up with a non-technical way to connect USB devices.

http://www.dealminded.com/viewtopic.php?id=140

Let me know what you think. I'll be adding more as the night progresses or as people ask me for instructions on how to do something.

hi jeffus - i'l check out your guide and let you know my thoughts.

thanks for posting it.

That's a great getting started guide, but you're a little too late for me .

Either way, back to OS 2007 HE. I really don't understand why i'm having problems with the power management. From what I recall, I had no programs installed, yet I still got less then like 3 hours batt life.

*Sigh*, it makes you want to just throw the towel in an buy an iPhone sometimes.

Great tutorial, an essential for the newbies. I got my 770 a week ago, and, following your tutorial, I am now booting from flash, in one trial. Thanks Jeffus.

Some minor suggestions to make life even more easy for the newbies, i.e. me

re 7.Booting from MMC
2. Go XTerm then type sudo gainroot
pay attention to letter l vs numeral 1, and letter o vs numeral zero
you need to know how to input special characters, underscore ("&!e" + Common), vertical stroke ("&!e" + Symbols) or you can handwritten after pressing Abc1 (this is for special symbols).

8. There is a question before backup? no, I forget what it is

12. Now.......At least 15+ minutes:.....; mine is 8.5 minutes and I missed reading the last statement when I return after 15 min. At the end of the copying, it exits XTerm; so one has to go XTerm/gainroot again in order to unmount.

Finally, I think this is going to be a very good beginners guide and would be also educational for the newbie, if you could put comments next to the command, that would make the exercise much more a learning guide to linux,

mkdir create dir
cd change dir etc



thanks again

I still failed to use my Treo650 as modem for my 770. I was able to pair with the Treo650, but failed to make the call "Connection to phone failed. Try again?". I also dl pdanet and installed in a laptop with USB, and still failed to use my Treo650 as modem. Any suggestion?

TIA




bun

well, it turns out I was NOT booting from the MMC, I has been booting all along from the flash. I am NOT that linux fluent and does not know how to re-do the whole thing. Any suggestions? I tried to repeat the whole procedure, but now I have some dirs/files that has already been created. Should I kill everything and return to the factory default status and retry? How do I return to the factory default? I think I can afford to wipe out my MMC card and redo the procedure?! any help? Now the 770 is running fine. except when attempt to boot from MMC, it gives "failed to boot from MMC2. boot from flash..."
TIA

bun

Problem solved, pls refer to post, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...?t=7611&page=2


Cheers,

bun