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: Sat  Jan 18,  3:52pm
 >
 > > 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).
 > 
 > If the C drive is seen by dos as a disk not a network drive you should be
 > just fine. The ELKS disk drivers are bios block level drivers.
 > 
 > Alan
 > 

sorry to keep bugging you, but how did you find out so much about this stuff
(bios, ramdrives, dos exe formats, etc.)?  is there a book i could read?
if i want linux to work on my hp1000cx, i feel that i'm going to need such a
book.

thanks.