Re: [jornada] Update status of Linux onto Jornada 720

Peter

Thanks again for posting this information (I've been away since Eduard's
requests). I'm putting the new kernel in now but can you summarize what
state the power/shutdown

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Gerwinski" <peter@gerwinski.de>
To: "Eduard Pertíñez i Juncosa" <epertinez@netscape.net>
Cc: <jornada@handhelds.org>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [jornada] Update status of Linux onto Jornada 720

> Hello, Eduard and everyone,
>
> Eduard wrote:
>
> > I have a Jornada 720 and I'm crazy to install linux on it. For what I've
> > read in this email there are a couple of tarballs that create a "distro"
> > (Thanks god!).
> >
> > I can help to document the process the same way I did for the Jornada
> > 680, but I need to have these tarballs.
>
> Here is what I wrote on 24 June 2002:
>
> : since I am still having trouble with the current kernel, I decided
> : to publish the stuff I already have:
> :
> : http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/hdg1-20020529.tar.gz (1372 kB)
> : http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/hdg2-20020530.tar.gz (71224 kB)
> :
> : To play with it and see GNU/Linux/X11 booting on the Jornada
> : 710/720, please create two partitions on a Compact Flash card,
> : e.g. /dev/hdg1 with ~8MB and /dev/hdg2 occupying the rest. Format
> : /dev/hdg1 such that WinCE can access it (e.g. VFAT) and /dev/hdg2 as
> : ext3 (or ext2). To boot Linux, simply run `hpcboot.exe' from WinCE.
> : You will get an X11 session as `root' with icewm plus another `root'
> : session on the serial line (152000 bps). In X11, press `Alt+Shift+X'
> : or `Alt+Shift+Y' for an `rxvt'.
> :
> : (I named my own Jornada "sojourner" and have chosen an appropriate
> : background picture. PLEASE DO NOT give all your Jornadas the same
> : name! IMO each one must have its own personality! :-)
>
> Since then I did some minor modifications to my system, but they
> might be useful for you. (In particular, PCMCIA cards can be used
> now.)
>
> You can download newer versions of the archives at:
>
> http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/hdg1-20021204.tar.gz
> boot partition, 2.9 MB
>
> http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/hdg2-20021204.tar.gz
> root partition, 77 MB
>
> http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/initrd-20021204.gz
> initrd to be compiled into the kernel, 788 kB
>
> CAUTION: The .tar.gz files extract to the _current_ directory.
>
> There is "root" plus two users "user500" and "user501", all with
> empty passwords.
>
> Booting messages are sent to the serial console. After booting,
> a root `bash' remains on the serial console. On X11, there is an
> icewm running for user "user500". With "Alt+Shift+X" and
> "Alt+Shift+Y", you can open windows running rxvt.
>
> The keyboard has a German layout.
>
> Everything can be changed in /sbin/init which is a shell script.
> (Use the serial root console if you are not familiar with the German
> keyboard layout.)
>
> Currently, the root partition is mounted as ext3. This might be a
> bad idea due to the limited lifetime of flash cards. Perhaps it
> would be better to mount it as ext2 and to tune2fs it in a way to
> minimise write accesses.
>
> Happy hacking,
>
> Peter
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Received on Wed Jan 01 17:21:04 2003