Re: [H2200-port] dual booting pocket pc

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello,
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> [Hope MLs are now up]
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> Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 6:50:09 AM, you wrote:
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>> Hi Bart,
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>> Bart Deleye wrote:
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>>> In fact what I would like to do is just dual booting my pda in such way
>>> that I can boot into wince to run tomtom or boot into linux to use gpe.
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>> Easy.
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>>> That without the need to reinstall tomtom and such after booting into linux.
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>> That is not possible (yet).
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> Why? Just backup WinCE data before booting Linux, and restore after
> that. I do this all the time. Of course, such "dual boot" takes some
> time (5+ mins) ;-( . There was ideas on the list how to make it more
> comfortable, and I even had some investigation/code towards cross-device
> WinCE data backup app, but that now pushed to the end of my queue. So,
> unless someone who really needs that will start on that, it will stay
> this way.
>

You're absolutely right! In the mean time I've done it the same way
using ipaq backup.
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>> Marcus.
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Received on Mon Nov 06 2006 - 18:12:51 EST