I got my Zaurus
Yippie! My Sharp Zaurus 5500 arrived today!
I unwrapped it, and pushed the button and NOTHING. The battery must have been dead. So I plugged it in but still nothing, no lights or anything. So I figured the cable was bad (we have different plugs here) so I searched for a cable with the right end on it, and plugged it in.
The light lit up and I pushed the button. And it whirred up sweetly, only to come to a screeching halt after the file system check failed. It was certainly running linux, and I was very familiar with this story, I just got my new PDA and I was staring at a root prompt. Anyway I did a “shutdown -h now” and it turned off. I flipped it back on again, only to do the same thing.
To make a long story short I tried a few things and figured I just needed to do a hard reset, so I went online and found out how (google beats manuals). After I reset it, it came up beautifully, and is VERY responsive.
I’ve been in and out of the #zaurus and #openzaurus rooms all evening and am quite sure that I will flash the ROM to use OpenZaurus. It simply rawks! 