Science fiction: Familiar GNU/Linux fast install on iPAQ h2200

From: Michael Opdenacker <zumbi3.a.t.free.fr>
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 10:25:14 EDT

Hi Marcus,

Here's just an idea for the future, when you have hundreds of iPAQ h2200
devices to reflash...

That will be actually very simple:

   1. Once our project reaches its goal (that's why this is still
      fiction), use the "d2s" HTC bootloader command to dump your
      Familiar GNU/Linux rom to a CF card. This is your master cf card.
   2. Insert the master cf card in a new device, hard reset it and HTC
      will automatically reflash it (if what David said is right...
      haven't checked yet).

This won't take more than 5 minutes for each device (taking into account
the time needed to open the box, to connect the device to the power
plug, to stick your logo and put the device back into the box), assuming
you have several master cf cards to reflash several devices in parallel.

Nice prospect, isn't it?

    Cheers,

    Michael.

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Michael Opdenacker
http://opdenacker.org/
Received on Fri Apr 09 14:25:19 2004

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