sorry haven't checked the fourm lately with finals going on. The quick version is I searched for how to make debian run on my c3000 first, that brought my c3000 to where it would boot to a command prompt. then i grabed a tar of the rc12 filesystem and copied it to my c3000, with debian inside of it. i have a startx script on the built in flash that chroots to the pdaxrom directory and does what is needed to start x. it behaves just like my c860, with suspend and all, had to change a few scripts for that. inside of it i have a chrooted debian setup, and do all my compiling natively there.
i'll do a more indepth howto this week or next, i'm late for class now though again. i hope this gives interested people a good start.