Requesting an updated in-depth tutorial on NetBSD installation
"Tobias Jansey" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcarm |
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I've recently kickstarted the buying and fiddling of Jornadas as a result of a massively successful thread on the Something Awful forums. Not only are these people in love with the handheld itself, they're also excited over the chance to use a new operating system. Many have tried Opie Familiar with the general opinion that it's a mess of frequent lock-ups and clunkiness and are looking elsewhere for the ultimate in PDA functionality. Unfortunately, beyond several 'iffy' distributions of Debian packaged in various ways, there seems to be very few. That's where you guys come in. I've seen numerous screens of NetBSD alive and kicking on the Jornada 720 and am astonished to see a ~March~ release specifically tailored to some issues found with the handheld. For whatever reason, I've found it very difficult to find any info on how to go about actually installing NetBSD and the How-To present on this site appears to not only be out of date with the recent release, but missing a few key, much needed features. I am specifically requesting an in-depth, easy to follow tutorial on how to not only install NetBSD on your average, unmodified Jornada 720 by means of Linux ( Specifically Knoppix as it's easy to obtain, burn, and use in less than an afternoon ), but how to install and properly configure an X environment usable by the masses as an everyday, easily used, and ultimately portable workstation. The absolute ideal situation would be for someone to prepackage an image of NetBSD with X preconfigured and a few helpful applications already installed, but anything would really be a godsend to several dozen people eager to try this operating system out for themselves. For an idea of what I'm looking for, point your browsers in this direction: http://www.lowlevel.cz/log/pivot/entry.php?id=41 Thank you for your time! If this has already been done, a thousand apologies. A link would be appreciated like nothing else and would make countless new Jornada owners extremely happy.