Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:46:37 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from Flash Message-ID: <20010919144637.A45222@ark.cris.net> In-Reply-To: <20010918162310.A58036@nc.rr.com>; from aa8vb@nc.rr.com on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:23:10PM -0400 References: <20010916193310.A26261@nc.rr.com> <20010918165759.A87390@phantom.cris.net> <20010918162310.A58036@nc.rr.com>
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hi, I think problem is quite bigger. IPAQ is Strong-ARM, not ix86 based computer. But FreeBSD does not support ARM based machines for now :( Such project is going on, but it's at early stage now. On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:23:10PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote: > Alexey Zelkin: > |> What is the best way to get FreeBSD up and running on this box? > |> Is there a simple way to put a basic loader on the flash and then load > |> everything (kernel, MFS root, etc.) via the ethernet? > | > |Use PicoBSD. > > AFAICT, the problem with using PicoBSD is that it is based on 3.x which > doesn't support the Kawasaki USB ethernet card in the IPaq. So I think I > need to look at 4.x. > > Randall > > -- > Randall Hopper > aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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