Subject: Re: hpcmips on Compaq 2010C
To: Alexander Frolkin <avf@eldamar.org.uk>
From: Matias Gut <matiasar@tournet.com.ar>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/02/2007 15:44:30
Alexander, thanks again.
As I'm new to bsd it wont'b be easy, but I'll try.

I think a brand new CF and start testing the way you did.

Alexander Frolkin escribió:
> Hi,
> 
>> Did you use a compact flash with a pcmcia adapter in order to install
>> hpcmips?
> 
> I installed it on a CF card using a USB CF card reader and a PC running
> OpenBSD, and I use a PCMCIA adaptor in the 2010c.
> 
>> Or you achieved to install it into the 2010c bult-in memory?
> 
> NetBSD uses all of the built-in memory as RAM, whereas CE uses part
> of it as RAM, and a part as a disk.  The only possiblity, therefore, to
> install NetBSD without a CF card would be to use a ramdisk, which I doubt
> would be very useful in practice (not to mention the fact that it wouldn't
> be large enough to contain things like X and Abiword).  (You could probably
> flash the ROM if you have the hardware, and you know what you're doing,
> but again, there's not enough of it for anything practical.)
> 
> 
> Alex
>