Re: [iPAQ] serial versus USB port?

On Fri, Jun 07 '02 at 14:29, Sergei Bantseev wrote:
> I'm wondering if loading of Linux can be done without serial port connection
> to my Windows PC (i.e. via USB port only).
You did not speand any time researching this topic, did you? 'Cause it
can not. Well, at last it is not supported.

With some luck you can make it work /wo serial port, but it's riscy, if
it fails you're screewed.

some people (like me) have created dualboot images, that work with out a
serial cradle, but with a CF card.

If you have a CF card (and a sleeve), are aware that things might break
(unlikely) and have some basic knowledge of linux and xstroke you can
try my dualboot image (beta quality or worse) on:
    http://linux.blacknet.de/ipaq

This does not give you a working linux installation on your ipaq, only a
dualboot setup. but you don't need a serial port, but a device to write
data onto a CF card (an iPaq with active sync will do)

Cu,
    Goetz.
Received on Fri Jun 07 19:25:24 2002