RE: Kernel 2.6

BTW, I think I am seriously going to need an anger management class after
this.

-----Original Message-----
From: Myles Greber [mailto:m.greber@cqu.edu.au]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:37 PM
To: Marty Hillman; tc1000-linux@handhelds.org
Subject: RE: [Tc1000-linux] Kernel 2.6

Hi Marty,

Do you have access to a USB CD-ROM drive? TC1000 will boot and install
from it!

Myles.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Hillman [mailto:mehillman@comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:24 PM
> To: 'Mathieu BOIS'; tc1000-linux@handhelds.org
> Subject: RE: [Tc1000-linux] 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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Received on Tue Jun 22 23:50:06 2004