Re: Newbie question:installing debian-arm on an HHP Dolphin 9900
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:48 AM, jerome moliere
<jerome.moliere@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> tahnks to Luke et jeremiah for their answers..
> Luke convinced me not to touch such job, I don't have the time to hack
> our device (and I don't have skills required for such job) ,
> furthermore my customers don't want any solution without constructor
> support (implying Microsoft supprt)
>
> No luck, I'm convinced that our application may have run well on such
> environment (Linux) ...
it would - it's just that you have to pick the right hardware. you
really do need to start from a base which already has linux on it.
take a peek through these:
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Linux-PDAs-PMPs-PNDs-and-other-Handhelds/
the further down the list you get, the older the hardware so the
chances of getting it are slim.
however, there is one other option: hp compaq iPaqs. some of these
are _excellent_ and you can get cradles which include a shed-load of
options. start at http://handhelds.org and go from there, you'll find
a shed-load of PDAs with instructions on how to install linux.
.... but you will _not_ find debian to be amongst them, because it's
still too much work to compress debian down to fit into 64mb of NAND
Flash.
overall, in this very very specialist area, you should be
understanding why it is that people pay money for shit proprietary
operating systems...
l.
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