[Angstrom-distro-users] 2007RC1.3 testing on h2200

[Joshua Layne]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:14:21 +0200, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Joshua,
> 
> Friday, December 21, 2007, 7:07:17 PM, you wrote:
> 
<snip>
> 
>   May I ask you to submit this as a bug? Resolving that in proper way
> may take some time.
> 

http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3514

<snip>
> 
>   Well, distros want something scalable and maintainable. Having
> zillion instructions for each and every machine is not like any of
> those. So, either someone strong-willed and time-abundant should come
> and devise a one way, or we end up with the situation that individual
> people maintain some adhoc instructions the way they can (which is
> usually not for long time). Nonetheless, if you think you have
> something more to add to "official" h2200 LAB instructions at
> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ipaq-h2200-series , feel free to
> start a wiki page (preferrably, just with additional notes, not a
> rewrite), or just post them in your blog, or something, I'll make sure
> they are linked from that list of per-machine adhoc install
> instructions.

I'll take a look and see if I have anything to add.  IIRC, most of my edits
were around not using the hh.org bootloader, as it did BAD THINGS to the
h2200, but there might be a sentence or two.

>     So, within the image itself, right? And that file tells to boot
> from SD? Sorry, we can't do that. The images as supplied are generic,
> and can be booted in any way which is at all possible. While
> "official" instructions recommend this or that method, advanced user
> may use whatever he can.

ok, fair enough.  I could also supply a tar file that the user would
extract to the same card and have them named appropriately, e.g.:

h2200lab_sd_boot.tar (or .tgz - whatever you prefer)
h2200lab_cf_boot.tar

(I don't believe LAB is used for anything except the h2200)

if you could make them available for download in the h2200 section.

Then they wouldn't be part of the image, but they could easily be installed
by an end user without editing any files.

(the above is actually what I personally do, because I got sick of creating
the same file over and over)