Trying to migrate from Wiki On Zaurus to Wiki On N810.

Key next step is to get all the old pages/file off of the old Sharp Zaurus.

I can't seem to get an [SD] card to mount! I did yesterday, but it seemed like I filled up a whole card or something, so then when I tried to use a different card, etc. the problems started. I've tried manually mounting, rebooting the Zaurus, etc.

Given the lack of mget in the FTP on the Zaurus, that's not a great situation.

But might tar/gzip the whole directory into a single file, then I can use FTP... (unless I can solve the card problem).

• did the tar-pipe-gzip thing to make a single file

• can't seem to connect the Zaurus to the Mac via the cradle now! It's enough of a connection to charge, but when the USB is connected, after a minute a little dialog pops up on Zaurus saying "Cannot establish connection...". Argh!

  • cannot ping the IP#

  • when try to FTP to it, it acts like it has connected, but when I do the [GET] it times out ("421 Service not available, remote server timed out. Connection closed.")

    • it acts like it has connected even when the Zaurus isn't attached at all (then gives time-out in a minute), so that piece is a false-positive.

Tried soft reset but that didn't help.

Hmm, [IR]? Oops, I don't have anything else that does [IR]. MacBook apparently supports [IR], but only for a remote control, not data transfer.

Bought a [CF] memory card at [Radio Shack].

• if I try to copy to /mnt/cf/. it says it's a Read-only file system (this is different than if I try to copy to /mnt/card/. when the [SD] is in)

• if I try cardctl status it says there's no card in Slot0 and Slot1. (I put an [SD] card back in that slot first, so both slots have cards in them.)

  • IRC dudes explained that cardctl only involves [CF], and that there are 2 logical slots. But that doesn't explain why not seeing either.

What if I try the BackUp/Restore app?

• the [CF] radio button is grayed out

• if I click on the [SD] radio button a dialog pops up saying "Cannot make backup file!'

IRC dudes say I'm mounting the wrong way

• do su root

• do type mount -t vfat /dev/mmcda1 /mnt/cf (tried with /mnt/card first but got error): success!

• copy file, confirm it's there, remove card, move it to Mac, copy file over, untar to get 990 files! (And all the original mod-dates are intact, etc.)

Don't want to move this much stuff to the Nokia N810 via Blue Tooth, so connecting the USB cable. Hmm, it auto-mounts on the MacBook fine, but can't figure out where things go....

• ah, card directories are hidden from local view while connected to the Mac. Once I disconnect, I see stuff within /media/mmc2/

• so connect via USB, make subdir of /media/mmc2/tmp/, copy stuff into that directory, disconnect, then copy from there over to where I really want things.

• bring up the Wiki On N810, load a page just copied over: success!

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