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

booting linux from apcmcia flash card (or maybe even better a type II hard
disk) would be by far my perfered option. could someone please comment on
what exactly needs dome to make this happen?

Eric

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Laird A Popkin wrote:

> 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 Sat Sep 16 05:23:43 2000