Hi Christian,
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 19:49 +0200, Christian Wolf wrote:
> Hello to everybody,
>
> I am new to the topic of handhelds in general and to linux on hnadhelds in
> special.
>
> As I am using linux on all my personal computers I would of course like to use
> *nix on my handheld also.
>
> I have got an HP iPAQ h4150. Unfortunately the tutorials etc. do not all cover
> this device. And on top of all that I am not able to find the right
> kernel/image.
> If Ihave understood it right, familiar is able to use the h4150.
Familiar does not support the h4000 series.
> But when I
> want to dwnload the familiar package the device h4150 is not avaliable. On
> the download page of the device there is only a link t an other distribution
> called anstrom or somethng similar.
The image you speak of was developed by Paul Sokolovsky and is
unmaintained. You *may* find that he has continued work (and support)
for the h4000 series in Angstrom.
> I first wanted to create a recovery image of flash and boot loader. So I
> brought BootBlaster on the device, but this nice program is not starting: It
> just quits after some tenth of secs (just a quick flash, that's all).
>
Bootblaster will not run on the h4000 series.
> On many paged it is written that I need a serial cable. I do not have such.
> Must I buy me any?
>
A serial connection of some type is usually required for debugging a
handheld.
> Can anybody tell me what I have to do to get installed a version of linux
> (preferred Opie) running on the h4150?
>
Try Angstrom, or see if you can find the kernel+image that Paul created.
> Thanks in advance
> Christian
Marcus.
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