FW: Flashboard questions...

<----Well, I haven't examined the flashboard circuitry closely, but one issue
could very well be that it isn't flashable without additional circuitry
that isn't present on the stock ROM board (I'm going to assume this is

the case, since that's what I've seen with most flashable memory chips
on PC boards - they require extra circuitry to erase and reflash the
chip.)
--->



That is fine as well, As I stated below, if you interface some removable media, such as SD CF etc, you can open the jornada and change the programming.  We are only talking about putting some kind of boot loader in the sd or whatever.  It wouldn't need to be changed very often, then you have teh OS and everything on the CF slot.



<-- And if that's the case - you then need a way to flash it anyway (a board somewhere that you can do that with).  Then once that's done you have to
remove a surface mount chip and resolder another in it's place.  And
anytime you'd want to change the ROM, you'd have to unsolder/resolder
the surface mount chip back on.  While some may have the skill and tools
to deal with surface mount, most don't.
-->

No you don't read up above.  The only time you would have to do what you say is if you permantly attach memory to the card.

What I am saying here is this.

Take the rom off the board.  Solder in a socket to the apropriate places and mount it to the board -- program your card with the bootloader on another computer -- put it in...