Familiar Linux...

[thegreatorangepeel]

Here's the story. I've set out to install Familiar Linux on my iPaq 3135. To do so I had to invest money to buy a serial cable for it, which is sparcly available anymore as it is a pre HP Compaq merger device, I have gotten as far as installing the bootstrap. While I've downloaded Familiar with a nice GUI, I can't install it. The xmodem transfer gets to 10191K of 11264K and quits on me. I'm guessing that due to wear and tear on the device I've managed to kill some of the space that would normally be addressable.

I will also add that 0.7.2 dosn't seem to support my greyscale display.

This makes it a 3 part question.

1. Can anyone suggest a workaround for my reduced space to get Opie (smaller of the two GUIs) on that does not involve having a NIC for the divice?

2. Is investing further money by buying a NIC in an already well worn device worth it to get it up and running again?

3. What kind of interaction should I be able to expect from the bootstrap? Currently, when fully booted, the power button does not respond and using `/sbin/telinit 0` (over serial) causes the whole works to freeze up.

[blobaugh]

just fyi, not many people here know much about putting linux on ipaqs. i was interested a year or so ago and i ran across a great linux ipaq site that i found on google, but alas i dont remember what i searched for. as for getting a new nic, what kind are we talking here? wireless or wired? if you want a wired one, are you really going to use it all that much? wireless i can understand cause it takes no effort to use. hopefully i'll be getting my ipaq 5455 in the mail soon, then i may start looking at linux for ipaqs again. i traded my other one about a year ago

[thegreatorangepeel]

Unfourtunatly, the H54XX models are not yet supported. Keep your eye on familiar.handhelds.org for updates. (Ammendum: I my have to eat my words on this one. After double checking I've discovered conflicting information (http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/v0.7.2/install/prerequisites.html) .

There is no Familiar Linux forum (or forum on handhelds.org for that matter). I was hoping to catch a lucky break here...

Victim of the economy, I'm a college grad working a cashier job that, as it so happens, pays less than any other cashiering job in the area and I'm also trying to save for a laptop (http://www.asus.com/products/notebook/l5series/l5000d/l5000d_overview.htm) so wire or wireless; whatever is less expensive (I would imagine wired). Both are part of my of network here at home.