Re: Requesting an updated in-depth tutorial on NetBSD installation

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:33:22PM -0500, Tobias Jansey wrote:
> 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 present on this site appears to not only be out of date with the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.
> 

See the Palmtop NetBSD article:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/06/05/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

And this paper (written for hpcsh port, but most also applies to hpcarm):
http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/uploads/media/EBSD04_37.pdf

-- 
Peter Postma