Subject: bootstrapping with iexplorer!
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 04/13/2000 01:03:20
Something I discovered while installing my z50 is that you _can_ use
Pocket Internet Explorer to get files onto the machine, but it is tricky:
1. WinCE machines don't have any kind of zip utility, so you must
unpack files yourself and put them on a FTP server for pocket
explorer to download.
2. Pocket explorer thinks "netbsd" is a text file and won't
download it as a file; it insists on displaying garbage text.
Renaming it to "netbsd.bin" or "netbsd.exe" works around this,
and you can download those to the Storage Card no problem.
3. Pocket explorer caches _everything_ and simply will not flush
the cache. If it gets any kind of error trying to access a URL,
it will keep using the cached error result and not even contact
the server again, until you reset the hardware! So you either
have to rename things a lot, or get them right the first time.
4. Pocket explorer download speed SUCKS!! Downloading the install
kernel took forever, I figure about 5K/sec or so. Boot NetBSD,
ifconfig ne0, ftp, it gets 600K/sec easy. F@&#ing WinCE sucks.
No wonder WinCE _lost_ market share last year.
Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com