Re: [iPAQ] downloading linux to ipaq details?

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:31:44PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> On Wed 08 Nov, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:45:11PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
>
> I wasn't being very clear here. Of course, I meant that you couldn't easily
> get the booltldr file downloaded using the browser so even though you can run
> osloader it doesn't really help.

Right. But you can get the ftp server on, this way.

>
> > Unfortunately, when I tried to transfer the bootldr code this way, it was
> > displayed by IE as gibberish, and stored in the cache as 'bootldr.txt'.
> > Since the WinCE File Explorer gives you no way to change (or even
> > see!) file extensions, this is not good.
>
> Hmmm. It occurs to me that suitable apache config could probably get the file
> to be sent as a 'binary' which might do the trick. Anyone tried that?
>

Well, I just tried putting a .htaccess file in my ipaq folder, containing
only:

ForceType application/octet-stream

IE did, in fact, then treat it as a binary, and gave me the same dialog
box. However, rather than saving it with _no_ extension, i.e. as 'bootldr',
it saves it as 'bootldr.' Gah! That dot makes all the difference. Hey
CRL people, how about moving to bootldr.bin? That'd work right out of the
box.

Ross

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