Re: Running Linux on my Nokia 9290 Communicator Phone

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 07/09/05

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    Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:23:38 -0400

    On 9 Jul 2005 12:57:58 -0700, armantic
      <armantic101@hotmail.com> wrote:
    > I am running a version of ELKS which is a distro that boots off of 2
    > floppies; a boot and a root disk. I am able to boot into ELKS using my
    > Nokia 9290 with images of these floppies and an 80186 emulator. The
    > problem I'm having is this will make the root Linux dive a read only
    > RAM drive. I should be able to use the boot disk to load the Linux root
    > off of a fixed disk. Is there any support available for EPOC32 file
    > system in Linux? Or preferably, is it possible to repartition my flash
    > card to Linux ext2 file system, or any other supported file system
    > using p3nfs? I am by no means an expert, and I found 0 documentation on
    > any of this. I don't even know where to start. If any one else out
    > there is experimenting with this, please share! THANKS! ...aaron
    >
    ELKS is based on Linux, but it is a limited subset of Linux. I'm not
    aware that it supports any file system other than minixfs. If the Nokia
    can run an 80186 emulator, what other CPUs can it emulate, and what is
    its native CPU? 

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