Dual boot on iPaq 3870

I would like to start some tests with QNX 6.2.1NC on my iPaq 3870
Is there a possibility to have a dual boot installation
for PPC2002 and QNX as a boottime option.
The PPC2002 should remain installed on the internal memory
and the QNX on a CF-Card.

Are there already applications as an address book and a calendar?
Is there any support for Bluetooth connections?
Can the USB connection be used?

Thanks for any informations
Werner

Werner Schweizer <Werner.Schweizer@ch.mullermartini.com> wrote:

I would like to start some tests with QNX 6.2.1NC on my iPaq 3870
Is there a possibility to have a dual boot installation
for PPC2002 and QNX as a boottime option.
The PPC2002 should remain installed on the internal memory
and the QNX on a CF-Card.

Are there already applications as an address book and a calendar?
Is there any support for Bluetooth connections?
Can the USB connection be used?

It is possible. However, I have not made images that support this yet. Also,
you would lose everything but the BASE install of WinCE when you did this.
So you would have to make a backup to CF and restore from CF between each
cycle (WinCE stores everything in DRAM).

Do you only have NC?

chris


Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Werner Schweizer <> Werner.Schweizer@ch.mullermartini.com> > wrote:
I would like to start some tests with QNX 6.2.1NC on my iPaq 3870
Is there a possibility to have a dual boot installation
for PPC2002 and QNX as a boottime option.
The PPC2002 should remain installed on the internal memory
and the QNX on a CF-Card.

Are there already applications as an address book and a calendar?
Is there any support for Bluetooth connections?
Can the USB connection be used?


It is possible. However, I have not made images that support this yet.
Also,
you would lose everything but the BASE install of WinCE when you did this.

That means every application installed on CE is lost after booting to QNX,
is that right?
But I’m still able to reload all with the Backup/Restore function of
ActiveSync over the USB connection?

So you would have to make a backup to CF and restore from CF between each
cycle (WinCE stores everything in DRAM).

Can the Backup of CE applications and data be done to a CF card?
Or can I install the CE applications on CF and keep them by
exchanging the card for using the iPaq under QNX?

How can the dual-boot be controlled?
Is that by holding a key while hard/soft reseting?
Or can it be done by detecting the CF containing QNX?

Do you only have NC?

At work I have QNX 6.2.1 PE.
But I’m not sure I can legaly use it for my private iPaq.

chris


Chris McKillop <> cdm@qnx.com> > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/


Thank you

Werner

That means every application installed on CE is lost after booting to QNX,
is that right?
But I’m still able to reload all with the Backup/Restore function of
ActiveSync over the USB connection?

So you would have to make a backup to CF and restore from CF between each
cycle (WinCE stores everything in DRAM).

Can the Backup of CE applications and data be done to a CF card?
Or can I install the CE applications on CF and keep them by
exchanging the card for using the iPaq under QNX?

How can the dual-boot be controlled?
Is that by holding a key while hard/soft reseting?
Or can it be done by detecting the CF containing QNX?

You can backup over USB or you can backup to a FAT partition on the CF disk
(you need as least as much space as you have RAM). The CF would probably
be easiest (and fastest). You can boot from the CF device by holding in the
center joypad button (it clicks) while reseting the unit. This takes you
to a boot prompt on the serial port. One of the buttons on the iPaq also
attempts to boot from CF but I have never even tried that myself.

Drop me an email and I will reply to you when I setup a IDE based image.

chris

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Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/