Re: jornada 690

Edgar Pettijohn III <[email protected]> Sun, 27 May 2018 23:15:08 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcsh
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 05/27/18 23:09, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote:
>
>
> On 05/27/18 22:51, [email protected] wrote:
>> On 2018-05-28 09:05, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote:
>>> I found a jornada 690 and am trying to install netbsd on it. I have
>>> managed to boot the install kernel, but I'm not sure how to install
>>> the sets. I've tried too many things to list. The wiki while useful in
>>> getting me as far as I have doesn't work. When booting the kernel it
>>> complains about not being able to boot wd0a, etc, etc.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Edgar,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this will work for the Jornada, but for Landisk, I 
>> copied the
>> sets to a USB drive and then chose the USB drive as the source of my 
>> sets
>> in the installer. That worked well for me. I'm not sure if you have a 
>> spare
>> USB port on the Jornada.
>>
>> - Travis
>
> If there is a usb port it is well hidden, but perhaps I'll look again. 
> There is a serial port, maybe I can connect it to my laptop and use it 
> somehow.  Too tired at this point for rational thought though.
>
> Edgar

I'll be damned. There is what appears to be a usb port. This could be 
promising.

Thanks!