Re: [iPAQ] booting off a pcmcia flash card ?

Speaking as someone who would love to be able to "dual boot" between WinCE
and Linux on the iPAQ (at least until there are apps available that make
it useful as PDA as well as being a really good toy) I would love to see
this happen. Unfortunately I don't know anywhere near enough about the
guts of the iPAQ or Linux to tackle this myself, but if "moral
support" counts (or beta testing would be helpful to anyone) I'm for it.

Come to think of it, this has the additional advantage that it becomes
really easy (and safe) for someone to try Linux on their iPAQ if this
comes together. Good for making converts!

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Vasant Ramasubramanian wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Andre Schroeter wrote:
>
> > now i wonder if there is a way to boot linux off a pcmcia flash card.
> > that would make the installation very easy i think. just prepear
> > everything on a notebook, copy it to the card, plug it in to the ipaq
> > and boot...
>
> It's an idea the myself and a I think a few others are working on (my
> target is not an iPaq nor do I use the iPaq bootldr or whatever it is
> now).
>
> Vasant.
>
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Received on Fri Sep 15 21:50:19 2000