Re: Re: familiar 0.4 comments and questions

: > When you only have a serial port to connect to the ipaq through minicom
: > or pppd then it's a little hard to get into the ipaq without telnet
: > or ssh already on there. As it is I had to open rxvt (which was
: > really huge and practivally unreadable at it's size) and stumble my
:
: We're always open to defaults changes. Especially for anything visual. If
: there's something you'd like to see different, send a patch.

I'll try - what controls the size of the rxvt as a default? i.e., why is it
different than in the older versions of familiar? Is it just the lack of the
MS font to use with the window?

: > way through the ipkg stuff to get ssh loaded
:
: The ssh ipkg comes default w/ both the bootstrap and complete images. The
: only issue is, you need to perform an ipkg operation in order to trigger
: the flushing of pending packages. We can add a flush operation to ipkg,
: and make note of that in the guide as one of the first steps.

Well the problem wasn't loading it - it was just a real hassle to do any of
the ipkg stuff on the ipaq screen with an xterm four times larger than the
screen. I was able to get it on there eventually.

Oh, something else I noticed while trying to get ssh on there - minicom could
no longer let me upload through rz/sz. I would run rz on the ipaq and when I
would trigger minicom to send a file it would just

Overall, though, I have gotten it to work and it looks good so far. I would
like to get the 32 MB ram image working, though

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