OESF Portables Forum
General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fraggy on July 20, 2004, 02:51:57 pm
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Hi,
Yet another question from me. I'd like to try out everything myself, but I don't have my Zaurus yet .
So is it easy to get a multibooting system on a Zaurus?
What kind of storage space would I need? Would it for example be possible to put one OS on one CF card, the other OS on another CF card? (Or would I need SD cards for that?) and what amounts of storage space would we be talking about?
Would 128Mb cards be enough? Or perhaps ONE single 1Gb card??? I read that 256Mb is needed for a Debian distro.
Nicest would be to have each OS on it's seperate memory card, like swapping HDDs on a desktop, is that possible? (I suppose yes, but is it complicated?).
I'm very curious, really...
And ehhh, just a crazy thought has anybody tried to install WinCE or WinXP mobile on a Zaurus (don't kill me, it's just a curiosity question, you know: why is it done, just because it's POSSIBLE!!!) of course I don't want to use Windoze on a Zaurus, but a multiboot Win/Lin PDA would score a lot of geek points, no?
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And ehhh, just a crazy thought has anybody tried to install WinCE or WinXP mobile on a Zaurus (don't kill me, it's just a curiosity question, you know: why is it done, just because it's POSSIBLE!!!) of course I don't want to use Windoze on a Zaurus, but a multiboot Win/Lin PDA would score a lot of geek points, no?
I have recently proposed on comp.sys.handhelds to do it the other way round:
Develop a Linux that runs on PocketPC. I mean it sits on top of an existing PocketPC software, not as a replacement Flash ROM for a PocketPC capable hardware (like Familiar). There is an example that it might work: coLinux which runs right on Windows.
The benefit would be
* independent on specific details of the device
* drivers for many extension devices are available
* can be installed without flashing - just a "PocketTux.exe" application
* runs on the most recent devices - we do not have to wait 6-12 months until somebody has reverse engineered a device (which is no longer being sold)
-- hns