Re: Installing NetBSD on HP Jornada 680 - newbie...

[Torsten Harenberg <harenberg%physik.uni-wuppertal.de@localhost>]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Jason Daivandy wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I want to use NetBSD on my Jornada 680, but since I'm new to the metier of 
> mobile computing and unix-systems I have a couple of questions.
> My desktop-computer is Celeron-533A using WinXP and WIN2k.
>
>
> 1. can a bad installation of NetBSD harm the Jornada 680?

I don't think that it's possible to harm the hardware (but of course: no
warrenty!), but your memory (not the WinCE in ROM) will be completly lost.
I've NetBSD/hpcsh now running on my Jornada for several month and he's
still fine :).

> 2. how can I get my memory card (CF) DOS-formatted?

Depends on which OS you are. But normally, those cards are allready DOS
formatted when you buy them. You have to disklabel and newfs them anyway
when you want to run NetBSD.

> 3. what happens to the win ce in the rom, since hpcboot.exe boots from
> the compact-flash-card?

Nothing. When you shut down NetBSD, the Jornada will boot WinCE like the
first time after you bought it. So make a backup on a permanent place (CF
card) before booting NetBSD.

4. is cross-building compulsory to get NetBSD
> installed and working on the Jornada 680?

Only when you want to make you own distribution. But there is also a
binary set avaible from the 1.6.1 release of NetBSD. Just go to your
nearest mirror of NetBSD. When you want to have it on a CD, look into the
iso subdirectory.


5. if it is, is there any
> script than can handle all the compiling to get NetBSD ready?

compiling the kernel and the world is done with a build.sh script included
in NetBSD. The only difference you have to make when cross-compiling is a
-m followed by the architecture you'd like to have.  Look i.e. into

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/

> 6. what are thoes binary files?

Which ones?

>
> (the following questions refer to the how-to at 
> http://netbsd.triada.bg/Ports/hpcsh/howto-use.html)

There's a very informative mail from Valeriy on

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hpcsh/2002/06/18/0000.html

with newer installation instructions. The port page is quite a bit
outdated. You only have to take care about one difference: the -d in the
build.sh script has been replaced by the word "distribution". But this
only affects you when you want to follow -current.

Hope this helps

   Torsten

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