Re: [iPAQ] What to buy with an iPaq?

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 08:09, Toby Gray wrote:

> On Monday 19 April 2004 06:24, tom wa quoth thusly:
> > Basically I want a decent amount of storage and a WiFi card.
>
> I should think so, depending on your definition of "a decent amount of
> storage". With SD cards now available up to 1GB capacity, you can stuff
> quite a lot into that little slot ;)

Heh, I was thinking of 256MB :)

>
> > Is it possible to use the removable media as the rootfs or
> > does this need to be on the internal flash?
>
> This is a tricky one. I believe that it is technically possible, but
> I've never done it that way. It makes more sense to me to leave the
> root FS in the on-board flash and just mount big chunks of it (/usr,
> for example, and possibly /home) on the card.

Cool, I keep forgetting that when it's 'off' it's not really off so I suppose physically removing / could be bad :)

I was thinking that I could swap between cards for developing and general use.

Thanks Toby, your info has really helped. After reading around a bit I'm also tempted by a 39xx :P

/me goes off to ebay...

Tom.

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