Re: [9fans] ipaq installation changes

[Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>]

> I just installed Plan 9 on an ipaq.  Both Booting101 and the wiki need
> to be updated.  I bought my ipaq used and it appears to have been

Thanks a lot.

> I've put copies of the relevant boot loaders and an updated version of
> Booting101 at www.collyer.net/who/geoff/9/bitsy/ so that others can
> find them easily.
>

Great. I'll copy your Booting101 to sources

> Is anybody working on making the Targus Stowaway collapsible keyboard
> work on the ipaq?  It would sure be easier than trying to hit the
> right keys on the wee keyboard at the bottom of the screen.

Not that I know.

> What do you other folks with bitsies do with them?

Mostly to listen music and some times for meetings. I run out of
battery so often that I cannot use it as a PDA (use a Palm for that).

> I found Plan 9 on the bitsy to be less robust than I'd expected.
> Running mfs and then acme locally crashed it, as did running mfs and
> aux/timesync locally.  When it crashes, I get no messages, just the
> penguin (`you lose, back to Linux', I guess).

I couldnt reproduce this. Did you recompile the 5[acl] set and all the
libraries and commands for the arm after that. Acme crashed for me before
I did that (I really mean acme, and not the kernel).

Did you have the bitsy on the serial line while crashed? Was there
any message in the serial console? The print for the console is disabled
to avoid cluttering the display, messages go to the serial line instead.