Re: Intimate/debian boot image

From: Tony Godshall <togo.a.t.of.net>
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 16:04:38 EDT

If and when I have one, I will do so.

According to Nathanael Anderson,
> Is there anyway that you or anyone else would be able to, and willing to put up your successfully configured intimate image for grabs( such as doing a dd of hda to an image and then we just dd it onto ours and boot). I have spent months trying to get an intimate install that I can compile on set up and have been having no luck at all.
> Thanks
> Nat Anderson
>
> According to gael.eveno@free.fr,
> > Hi,
> >
> > After 2 days of great happiness, my bootloader stops "loading" intimate.
> > Now I have the same problem than Tony Godshall and the same log file... ;o(
> >
> > As I've tested intimate with a CF card, I tried with it, and now, I'm sure
> > problem comes from 2.20.4 bootldr
> >
> > Ga?l
>
> Perhaps this is why the web page says 2.20.x is not compatible with
> intimate. They also say they are investigating it, but
> there's not detail, but the intimate site changes only very rarely
> (and with no specifics, it's hard to pitch in :-( ).
>
> (Heck, they don't fix it even when very specific known show-stopper
> errors in it exist, like the partition size issue and the blackbox vs
> matchbox issue!)
>
> I've given up on intimate's official install method in favor of
> the debootstrap-on-familiar method ( a merge of
> http://handhelds.org/projects/ipaqsetup.html, third method, at
> the bottom and the official debian install manual for arm,
> debootstrap method, starting with familiar) for the base system,
> and then coming back to the intimate project for the ipaq-specific
> stuff. It's complicated, but at least I can understand each
> step well enough to recover from an error.
>
> The intimate stuff is so cool (the screenshot gallery sold
> me right away), it's a shame it's such a pain to get it installed.
>
>
>
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Received on Sat Sep 06 21:10:26 2003

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