Re: help hpcmips

["Andy Ruhl" <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:11 PM, CHRIS ROGERS <judolizard%yahoo.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> I had seen the compaq pda was listed on the netBSD hpcmips site and was 
> trying to follow the compatibility list as good as I could.  Although, I seem 
> to be at a loss when it comes to figuring out how to get the OS on the 
> palmtop.  The list has my machine on it but I'm now unsure of what media I 
> can use to load it.  I can get an pc card adapter to make a compact flash to 
> work fairly cheap.  There was one list on there that had a bad link and could 
> not find what i was looking for.  Anyway, I'd like to find out if a 2GB cf 
> (sandisk) will work for it (if I plug it a new pc I'm sure it will but as for 
> the compact with the supplied kernel and software, I'm unsure).  Thanks in 
> advance -- Chris
>
> P.S.  I had seen that the pcmcia support included extreme; is it referring to 
> the extreme sandisk compact flash cards?
>

What machine is it?

You put a kernel on an external card, and boot it with one of the
bootloaders usually. This will be hpcboot or one of the others.

Andy