RE: Kernel 2.6

Thanks. I will try to wade my way through the French (drawing on my
experience with Latin, Spanish and that one year of French in junior high
school at the age of 12). ;-)

So far, I have been able to do the Knoppix terminal server thing, but:
1) you are tethered to a cable
2) no pen support
3) no access to the local hard drive
4) no root access.

I think this is getting to be too much. I am going to give it one more stab
and then throw the damned thing away.

-----Original Message-----
From: tc1000-linux-bounces@handhelds.org
[mailto:tc1000-linux-bounces@handhelds.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu BOIS
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 5:37 PM
To: tc1000-linux@handhelds.org
Subject: Re: [Tc1000-linux] Kernel 2.6

        Hi Marty,

> I am not a developer. Just a lowly network admin. It took me months to
> figure out how to run a system restore on the TC1000 without buying the
> $350 multibay (two USB CD-ROM drives). I still have not figured out how
to
> get linux on the box.
>
> I saw in the BIOS that there is a way to boot from CompactFlash, but I
have
> not been able to boot from anything other than the HDD.

        You can see on my web site how to do it.
        The page is not complete, but the important steps are there, and
detailed.
        It's made for a Mandrake 9.1 but it should work for other
distributions too
(but not Slackware I'm afraid [because it's not installable from CDROM, it
needs a floppy disk as far as I remember...]).

        The idea is to have another machine (called "the server"), that will
have the
content of all the CDs of the Linux distribution on the server, to share it
by NFS, and to boot the TabletPC in PXE mode (this means through the
network)
on the image that is used to boot the Linux distribution CD.

        My web page that explain this (in french but should be
understandable if
translated with http://babelfish.altavista.com/)
http://boism.nerim.net/TC1000/Linux/Mandrake/index91.php

        The web page that made it possible in my mind:
http://81.5.185.34/tc-one-thousand/software.html

        Cheers,

-- 
Mathieu BOIS
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