Re: real debian + real pda?

Hi

* Tony Godshall (togo_at_of.net) wrote:
> access from familiar (familiar can read the vfat partition
> but not the ext3 partition). Haven't gotten networking set

ipkg install ext3-modules

:)

>
> What I'd like to get is a PDA that I can carry around and do
> PIM stuff (i.e. kind of like familiar) but also have all the
> power tools from Debian when I want them (thus the 5GB

That's pretty much what we all want I think!

> What do you all think? Could this work? Should it be
> based on Intimate? Familiar? Or will I have to start

It's certainly possible, but I suspect it would be a hell of a lot of
work. To be honest I would think what you really want is to use
Familiar, with Intimate installed on the disk, then when you want to use
the power stuff, open a terminal, shove the disk in, mount it and chroot
to it.

Personally, I think Intimate will become most useful if/when bootldr
learns to boot from an MMC card, and when MMC cards get usefully large,
that way you could keep all the Intimate/Debian stuff inside the iPAQ
(on newer models at least). I'm not really sure if MMC is up to the task
though, it's a very very weak storage system.

Cheers,

-- 
Chris "Ng" Jones
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