Re: progress on running on hp palmtop?

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: http://www.lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk/~alan (Alan Cox)
 > Date: Fri  Jan 17,  8:47pm
 >
 > > i looked through the faq (the unofficial one) and it left open the questions
 > > about palmtops.  i would guess what would be needed is to (1) have the ability
 > > to have the elks kernel boot by loadlin and (2) use an umsdos file system.
 > > (it appears impossible to reformat the memory for another file system and,
 > > frankly, i don't wanna try because i may be unable to boot my palmtop!)  will
 > > elks ever allow for a semi-complex file system like umsdos?  has anyone tried
 > > to run this way?
 > 
 > You don't actually even need LOADLIN for ELKS. Its a 16bit real mode
 > program. You could use a .COM file that basically did
 > 
 > 	read entire image into ram
 > 	cli
 > 	memcpy image -> base_address
 > 	jmp base_address

but, i'd still need umsdos, right?  and that is a large module in 386 linux,
right?

since i just got my palmtop, i'm gunna have to play with it more to find out
if it's kosher to reformat the "c" drive (i'm not sure if its conception of the
"c" drive is as a ram disk, in which case i'm completely screwed, umsdos or
not).