Tablet

  Speaking of NMLUG...

  Has anybody tried to put android on an existing tablet?

  Any other experiences with Tablets?

  I've got a Fujitsu Stylistic 3400 that I got used a couple of years ago. 
It came with Win2K.  I've left it alone because I didn't have any easy way 
of booting from installation media.  The diskette drive is external and not 
available.  It doesn't boot off USB devices.  It would PXE boot, but the 
built-in ethernet is only available with the docking bay, which is not 
available to me.

  With the recent talk about Android on everything, I went to the android 
site and saw that it was free, but only in source code.  I don't have the 
time to set up a dev environment, though.  Has anybody seen a precompiled 
set for existing tablets?  Has anybody set up a dev environment for Android?

  I'm thinking of trying to put Ubuntu on it.  It came with a 6G hd, but 
I've got a 30G drive from a dead laptop.  If I hang the hd on another 
computer with a PATA to USB converter (I already have), I could put a 
bootable partition on it with grub or syslinux, then copy the install files. 
During installation, I would skip partitioning and formatting.  (sounds like 
something I should document, eh?)

  I saw someone ask about tablets on CentOS.org forums and they were told 
there was lots of activity about tablets around Ubuntu.  Sounded like a 
suggestion...

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Ed Heron

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