Re: HP iPaq hx4700 and familiar Linux.

On Friday 09 March 2007 21:55, Jan Roar Rød wrote:
> I have a HX4700 collecting dust since I Converted all of my PC's into
> Ubuntu-PC's. Now I feel the time is come to convert the hx4700 PDA into
> a linux PDA.
>
> I will install Familiar lInux 0.8.4 into it.
>
> I have decided to follow this tutorial:
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqHx4700HowtoInstallLinux.
>
> My question to all of you is: Is there anything else I need to know
> before proceeding with this project? any tips & tricks I should know?
Provided you have a CF and an SD card, and the first partition of the CF is
not too big (32Mb is good, I think) it is remarkably straightforward.
Everything works either straight out of the box or with minimal fiddling. I'm
happy to help if you run into problems, but I'm no guru! You probably want to
join the hx4700-port list as well - the gurus are there...
> and last: is there any "must-have" software that's not included in the
> familiar Linux package?
Probably - what do you want to do? I'm struggling to get mplayer to work
properly, but otherwise most things seem to be fine.
Good luck.

-- 
Dr Charles McEvoy
Ripon, UK