Re: [iPAQ] Some other OS on iPAQ

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:20:30PM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Why would he turn the iPAQ into a brick if he starts with his OS in RAM,
> using something like osloader, cyace, hpcboot, etc.? Or if he uses redboot
> in Flash, he could use the HTC loader to recover a Flash image from CF.

Because his OS could still do nasty things with the flash. I even get
Linux into doing that kind of dirty stuff, and I'm glad that I can
easily reprogram the flash with JTAG.

Erik

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