RE Can Intimate be run off of Familiar 5.1 ?

Yes it is possible - with a little fiddling.

First of all I've got a 16M 3630 with a 1G IBM Microdrive

I've installed familiar 0.5.1. and (not that it matters) i'm networked
through USB

First you need to downgrade your kernel so add
   src v0.5
http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.5/packages/armv4l

to /etc/ipkg.conf. Then do an ipkg update.

Install the 2.4.7-rm3....devfs kerneal and task-initmate-modules (these
aren't the full names but if you do an ipkg list | grep 2.4.7 this will
show the appropriate modules) and maybe ide-modules (I can't remember if
ide-modules is necessary).

go to /boot and you will see the new kernel you have installed and that
zImage is soft linked to zImage-2.4.16-.......... you want to boot
familiar from the new kernel you've just installed (the 2.4.16 kernel
won't be able to recognise /dev/hda when it tries to boot). To change
the default kernel to the one you've just installed

    cd /boot
    rm -f zImage
    ln -s zImage-2.4.7-........ zImage

Now reboot the Ipaq

When the Ipaq comes back up and you have the networking setup so it can
contact the net, follow the instructions on
http://intimate.handhelds.org/install.shtml.

And when all that has finished either reconfigure your linuxargs
yourself or do the following

   cd /
   cp linuxargs linuxargs.familiar (this is just for backup purposes)
   cp linuxargs.intimate linuxargs

Now when you reboot the bootloader will read the new linuxargs and give
you a choice of familiar or intimate to boot.

I probably missed a step, but when I did it it didn't set up sshd for
me. to get around this steal the sshd from familiar.

             mount /dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1

Then create a tar file on /mnt/hda1 of the following folders /etc/ssh,
/etc/init.d/ssh, /etc/S50ssh. /usr/sbin/sshd, /usr/bin/ssh*
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.5. ie
 
             tar cf /mnt/hda1/ssh.tar etc/ssh
             tar rf /mnt/hda1/ssh.tar etc/init.d/ssh
             tar rf /mnt/hda1/ssh.tar usr/bin/ssh*
 
(The ssh that comes with familiar requires the libcrypto.so.0.9.5 in
/usr/lib and that isn't supplied with the intimate build)

Then chroot to /mnt/hda1 and extract the tar

             chroot /mnt/hda1
             tar xfv ssh.tar
             exit

If you now reboot then you will be able to ssh into the iPaq.

This is just what I did to get mine going so it's not definitive or
authoritative but it's how I got mine going. Hope this is of some help

Regards

Rob

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Received on Thu Mar 28 17:20:59 2002