Many hands make light work. (was Re: Re: New installer script UPDATE)

Hi

* Todd Bomely (Todd@Bomely.com) wrote:
> I think we are miscommunicating. The only thing actually ON the iPAQ is

No, we're really not. I didn't just make up what I told you.

> PocketPC and the Bootldr. I have no apps installed whatsoever. Aside
> from the bootldr it is factory. The pocketpc is in ROM not RAM and
> nothing should be in ram. When I used the reset button on the bottom of

The base WinCE image fits into ROM with a couple of apps, but most of
the apps (especially any additional PocketPC software you've installed)
and all of the data are stored in the RAM of an iPAQ - there's no way
all that stuff could fit into a 32MB ROM model, let alone a 16MB model.
If you don't believe me, look in the Settings section, somewhere in
there you can set a slider to balance the RAM for use as storage.

> It shouldn't be removing everything with just a regular reset unless the

I agree, but I don't know what bootldr's behaviour on that is - I don't
have PocketPC installed on my iPAQ.

> bootldr is doing something naughty. What's the point of having an OS in
> the Rom if it's going to lose everything even the clock when I reset it
> to boot into something else.

I would prefer it if you didn't vent your frustration at me, I didn't
design your iPAQ, I didn't build it, I didn't sell it to you and I
didn't sell Intimate to you. It is what it is. Handhelds.org isn't a
huge project, bootldr is mostly written by one guy at HP. Intimate is a
tiny project, there are about 4 people working on it right now when they
can spare the time. Having sat idle for most of this year, it's great
that Intimate is being worked on again at all.

I appreciate that it's frustrating that the iPAQ isn't doing what you
thought it could do for you - I feel exactly the same way about mine,
and I'm fixing the problems as fast as I am able.

> working properly. That's my REAL concern. But until we do, I still need
> a working PocketPC.

Well, then I suggest you look at the page on handhelds.org that covers
mailing lists, there is one for the bootldr, or there's the
#handhelds.org IRC channel. Like you said, you weren't even booting
Intimate when it was happening.

Cheers,

-- 
Chris "Ng" Jones
  chris@black-sun.co.uk
  www.linuxdude.co.uk