RE: [iPAQ] French WinCE version

Hi Lionel,

Sadly, I don't speak French ... but I have another alternative for you.
At some stage in the near future there will be support for reflashing a
compressed .gz image of the Pocket PC image. Currently a later osloader
version of the osloader will allow you to save the Windows CE image as a .gz
file (uses the zlib library to save it). Here is a suggestion (since I like
to be sure of the image is saved correctly):

1. Keep your current four .bin files.
2. Use the osloader-1.5.1.exe that I will mail you in a separate email
3. use the Flash->Save->As .gz file... option (if you have a Expansion Pack
and a microDrive or SanDisk you can save it onto there)
4. Copy the .gz file to your Linux box and do an integrity check on it with
a 'gzip -t'
5. If the above integrity check passes create a 16MB file from your
flash_*.bin files
( eg 'cat flash_0*.bin > flash_all.bin' )
6. Do a binary compare of the flash_all.bin with the unziped .gz file
7. If it compares you have saved it correctly.
8. Do a md5sum on all the flash_00*.bin files and the .gz file (because I
like redundency in these cases) and keep these md5sums with the images. This
will allow you to detect any bit rot if you decide to go back to Pocket PC.
(Currently there are instructions to restore Windows CE using the four
separate files, so it is best to keep them for the moment.)

Oh, and to do the install please follow the instructions on the web site and
don't use the osloader-1.5.1 - since you really should tread the path of
others that have gone before you and successfully installed Linux (who knows
what a deviation will lead to)...

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Dirk
Received on Sat Oct 14 18:19:08 2000