Re: real debian + real pda?

According to Chris Jones,
> 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
>
> :)

uh, no networking yet. locks my linux box's kernel :(
but i guess i can put the .ipks on the pcmcia card and
install them. thanks!

> > 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.

Ah, so no need to reboot to get the Intimate stuff?

> 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).
> ...
 
Yeah, well, my 3765 doesn't have an MMC or SD slot, so I
don't agree with you there ;-) . It does boot off the pcmcia
hard drive ok, but I guess I don't want to have to reboot
(hey, I gotta be able to show people the uptime on my pda!).
Received on Thu Jul 31 2003 - 23:25:03 EDT