Here's how I do a symbolic link using emelfm2....
Say I've installed the game PushWall and it has installed it's game data in the directory..../usr/share/games/pushwall.....tap/highlight that directory in the left window of emelfm2 and copy it to the SD card directory.../media/mmc2/share/games (right window of emelfm2). Then tap/highlight the /media/mmc2/share/games/pushwall directory in the right window. Next press on the menu key button of the n800 (that key between the escape and swap buttons to the left of the screen below the navigational keys). This will pull up a menu. Tap on the "Actions" option on the menu. Tap on "Link" on the next menu. A screen will come up and ask you if you want to remove the contents of /usr/share/games/pushwall. Select the Replace option,....and that's it. The symlink is set up and you're done!

What I wouldn't give to have gvm stop corrupting my stores every so often...

And yeah, this is what I wouldn't give.

Anyway, I'll just continue exiting out of gvm by using that seg fault I mentioned earlier. It works well enough for me and I found a few more programs that will do this.

Thanks for the tip on symlinking Push! That's going to come in real handy for me.

Okay, I'm almost there in getting a good install to a slot card.

The only thing stopping me is an error stating I need the fatFS.pdb file installed.

Could someone please explain?

Google is giving me grief on this.

By the way, I'm using a 4 gig memory card using FAT32.

Don't ever install that.

I don't know that software, but my guess is that you'll find a lot of prc/pdb files somewhere around its setup folders. What the setup program is doing is just moving these to the card (using the HotSync protocol), which you should be able to do with a simple file browser.

Well, I'm not one to ever argue the advice of our resident genius!


Okay. So I took a different direction on this, and yes, I finally think I got it!

I've installed a few this way including the extremely hefty Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary.

I'll just use the 5 Minute Medical Consult 2010 as a walk through though.

You can find their product and download here:
Skyscape's 5-Minute Clinical Consult

If you haven't registered with Skyscape, it's super easy and free.

Run the installation file 5min-cc_palmwin.exe on your computer.

Then on your computer go here:
C:\Skyscape\5Min-CC\12.0.3\Palm Install Files

Open up the file called "Install" with Notepad.
Remove the section [OPTIONAL] and all the files (which are in text) that correspond with this.
Save

Transfer all of those files from this folder to your PALM/Launcher folder.

When you HotSync it will say that there's a newer version available.

Click no, click yes. Whatever.

You're done!

With this method, it took less than 1 minute to install Taber's Dictionary.

Also, the gvm load up time is not even 3 seconds compared to half the stuff I previous had which took almost 20 seconds to appear. And yeah, this can be done with any of the Skyscape applications.

But best of all, no more managing multiple gvm.stores anymore! Joy!

Just make sure you take good care of your one store though since it requires some of the [SHARED] and [REQUIRED] files needed for the applications you installed.

Post back if anyone has luck with this.

Cheers all.

How did you guys get an account at palmgear.com? They ask you to do a hotsync and give them your hotsync number and to do a hot sync you need to input a host name or ip address and i have no idea what to put as the host name or ip address.

They want your hotsync id name. In other words, the name you have on your Palm device. Mine is Pushwall. Many Palm programs require this when you buy them so you can get a unique registration code based on your hotsync id.

Just to add a little more detail to my previous post.

My gvm.store is now 8 megs which is probably too large as is it.

I have about 330 megs in my /media/mmc2/PALM/Launcher folder of the apps I installed this way.

When looking inside my gvm.store, these apps are only taking up something like 264k combined.

So yeah, I think this is definitely the trick to go with and use.

I'm not even getting seg faults anymore.

Somebody needs to be a witness to this! *lol*

To install 5min CC without a working palm or a proper "registration":
Somehow you got a copy of 5min CC, lock or unlock does not matter, install on your PC,
go C:\Skyscape\5Min-CC\12.0.3\Palm install files\, and copy ALL files to N8x0\media\mmc2\Palm\Launcher.
and then copy all SmART*.* (20 altogether) to RAM, Zlauncher did alright, then click 5MCC, it may run, if not, also copy 5Mcc.prc to RAM, then it will run. Of course, Addison did it all on SD card is probably more elegant.

5MCC is a paidware, if you have no intention to pay for it with your hard earned $, $79.99, forget it, most of the contents are locked. I have a paid copy, but registered into winCE in the past, and they balked about one licence for one PDA, what a sh1ty vendor,...., I stick with my MerckManual.

Thanks Addison,

bun

You're welcome Bun!

Yeah, when I said select all the files in C:\Skyscape\5Min-CC\12.0.3\Palm install files\ there are probably a few of them that don't need to be transferred. But hey, I tried to keep it simple.

But this way you don't need to mess around with Zlauncher, Resco Explorer, Filez or any of that junk.

All you need to do is Hotsync which takes a few seconds and instant success.