I've done it. I have a Workpad z50 with a 96 MB CF card. I used FDISK to
partition it (you could also use fips or GNU part, I guess). I made a 21 MB
FAT16 partition so that I could put my sets on that side, along with
pbsdboot.exe and netbsd.gz (compressed is best).  Get the experimental
PocketPC sets to begin with.

Then, after creating a NetBSD filesystem (with a 5 MB swap partition;
everything else for / ), I needed to ctrl-z to shell and execute fdisk to
note the partition information for the MSDOS partition and then, after
setting the editor to vi (EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR) executing dislabel -e
wd0 and adding my MSDOS parition as drive e.

Then I "fg" back to the installer and tell the installer to look for the
sets (only first three, initially) on an unmounted filesystem, device wd0e,
filesystem msods, directory / .

It finds the sets and builds the system. Voila--bootable NetBSD on my WinCE
machine!

I've been using my machine for a few months and love it. I did load my
favorite editor (vim) and w3m. So comfortable. I just wish the SUSPEND
button really shut off everything...

Robert Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: "X-Odus" <x-odus@iname.com>
To: <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, 28 September, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Sharp Mobillion 4600


: Hmm.... now It wont mount a root partition.  it is trying on wd0a, so I am
assuming
: that is the flash card?  How do I get a file system on this?  My Flash
card reader is
: hooked up to my Windows2000 machine.  I dont think it will work in linux.
any ideas?
:
: X-Odus wrote:
:
: > DUH!  I got it working.  It says unsupported CPU when ever I use user
defined
: > type.  I used the mobillion 4100 settings and it worked fine.  Now i
just have to
: > make an FS on the memory card. or something.
: >
: > X-Odus wrote:
: >
: > > I got the kernel and used the pbsdboot.exe that you sent.
: > >
: > > It says "Unsupported CPU"
: > >
: > > Josef Kormann wrote:
: > >
: > > > Hello,
: > > >
: > > > chances are good that it works.
: > > >
: > > > I've got a Mobilon 4500 and tried the TX3912 kernel
: > > > (should be binary/kernel/netbsd.TX3912.gz in the directory of a
snapshot)
: > > > You should not be too worried about error messages of the latest
: > > > pbsdboot.exe .
: > > > Developers are doing their best, but no one can manage to test all
: > > > improvements on all HPCMIPS-machines.
: > > > This is something what users can test almost headache-free:
: > > > If you have got enough diskspace, i recommend storing at least the 3
latest
: > > > snapshots.
: > > >
: > > > Please try an older version of pbsdboot (pbsdboot1 is only for WinCE
1.0).
: > > > Perhaps 20000315 snapshot with the following settings:
: > > >
: > > > User defined frame buffer:
: > > > Name: Sharp Mobilon 4100
: > > > Type: D8_00
: > > > Leave default values for the rest.
: > > > After waiting a few seconds it should boot up.
: > > > If you have got problems to prepare a storage medium like Microdrive
or a
: > > > CF-Card, a Notebook running OpenBSD might help you to fill it  with
a
: > > > file-system.
: > > > (although not the pure NetBSD way).
: > > >
: > > > I've attached a copy of pbsdboot.exe
: > > >
: > > > Let's continue using NetBSD
: > > >
: > > > Josef Kormann (I'm a newbie)
: > > > joe@swanisle.de
: > > > or josefkormann@compuserve.com
: > > >
: > >
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: > > >                    Name: pbsdboot.exe
: > > >    pbsdboot.exe    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
: > > >                Encoding: base64
:
: