Re: Status

In point of fact, If anyone who has ever owned an x30 has done any real work
on the x50, they haven't given me any of their results. I have gotten some
help by way of suggestions and hardware comparisons, but that would tend to
help the x30 people as much as us x50 people...

the only pocketpc I've ever owned is an x50v.

Richard
X50 team

On Saturday 16 July 2005 00:14, Corey Touchet wrote:
> I dont see how any development is going to happen on the x30 since it
> seems that the x30 users that formed this group seems to have went out
> and got the next best thing (x50) and began work on it. Work on a newer
> device does not always produce the results enabling the older devices to
> work.
>
> Jay Coles wrote:
> >Haret is a bootloader and testing tool that allows you
> >to boot into linux from windows mobile, you use
> >windows mobile to get everything set up and working
> >(the windows boot loader does this) then use haret to
> >boot into linux until you work out how to get by
> >without windows
> >
> >until you replace the flash everytime you reboot you
> >will go back to windows mobile as you load linux off
> >of a sd card. the only problem is that it wipes your
> >data in ram (not in flash) so its like a hard reset,
> >but if you backup to flash then restore you should be
> >fine this is because linux uses all the ram as ram and
> >not a hard drive/ram split (even if you set it up like
> >that (tmpfs) you will lose the windows stuff)
> >
> >as nothing is permenent there is very little risk of
> >doing anything unrecoverable (unlike when i flashed my
> >x30 to the unoffical A03 firmware and permently lost
> >my flash partion, i upgraded to A05 and still didnt
> >get it back)
> >
> >the advantage of that flash partion is that in the
> >future we could be able to dual boot by putting linux
> >in the 2nd flash partion (the one you can store files
> >on) as long as you back up windows mobile to an sd card
> >
> >Jay Coles
> >JayColes_at_yahoo.com
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