Re: Further on the New Install Process

From: Dwayne Fontenot <dwayne_at_activebuddy.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:12:51 -0800 (PST)

is rx or rz included in the install? if so you should be able to
xmodem or zmodem over the bits you need, which IMHO is much easier than
getting ppp going.

Dwayne (jacques)

> As you can see from my last post, I am a little stuck on the grey screen
> with the x on it.
>
> So far I have been using USBnet to get things and install them, and
> while I had a user interface on the iPaq that was great. However, I do
> not have that anymore, and there is no way to either ssh, or telnet into
> the ipaq. It would be a good idea to include either the ssh daemon or a
> telnet daemon on install so that one could connect. I typically have
> used the serial connection to simply configure usbf and then switch to
> usbnet and ssh. So, now I must rely on ppp (something I haven't
> configured in literally years) in order to be able to download enough
> additional stuff to get a UI. I haven't seen anywhere in the
> instructions what you need to do in order to get ppp going. Should I
> follow the Familiar instructions?
>
> I hope my seemingly never ending drivel on this is not driving you
> people too nuts. I am honestly trying to help as a user who is
> relatively new to Linux on the iPaq and trying (hard as hell) to install
> intimate. Because in it's current state, my iPaq is relatively useless
> :-)
>
> Paul
>
> --
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> universe
> -- unknown
Received on Tue Oct 29 2002 - 01:14:45 EST

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