Re: hpcmips on Compaq 2010C
Alexander Frolkin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcmips |
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Hi, > Did you use a compact flash with a pcmcia adapter in order to install > hpcmips? I installed it on a CF card using a USB CF card reader and a PC running OpenBSD, and I use a PCMCIA adaptor in the 2010c. > Or you achieved to install it into the 2010c bult-in memory? NetBSD uses all of the built-in memory as RAM, whereas CE uses part of it as RAM, and a part as a disk. The only possiblity, therefore, to install NetBSD without a CF card would be to use a ramdisk, which I doubt would be very useful in practice (not to mention the fact that it wouldn't be large enough to contain things like X and Abiword). (You could probably flash the ROM if you have the hardware, and you know what you're doing, but again, there's not enough of it for anything practical.) Alex -- -----------------------< Alexander Frolkin >----------------------- -----< [email protected] >-----< http://www.eldamar.org.uk/ >----- ``I can't believe it. You actually found a practical use for geometry!'' -- Bart Simpson, ``Dead Putting Society''