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Topic: Sony CLI??, can you get DSL to work on the CLI.

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WCD

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Posted: July 06 2006,06:23

Hi, im new to this forum so if this is in the wrong place i apologise,
Ive seen alot of people talking about DSL running off of SD cards in various pieces of harware, including an N-Gage!!. I was wondering if anyone has tried to boot DSL of a memory stick.I have a hunk o junk UX50 running crappy palm OS i was just curious to know if anyone has tried DSL from a Memory Stick.
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Posted: July 06 2006,06:32

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Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
Boot from a USB pen drive
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Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
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WCD

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Posted: July 06 2006,07:50

Shiney, Well i shall have to dust off the clie then and give it an over haul.
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Posted: July 07 2006,21:50

Are you talking about booting the CLIE from the memory stick? Can PDAs such as this one boot other OSs from removable media? I'm certainly not an expert on such things, but I've not heard of PDAs doing this before. Also, I'm guessing the stock Linux kernel in DSL wouldn't boot a system with a Sony CXD2230GA processor without recompiling?

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WCD

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Posted: July 08 2006,18:15

you could very well be right, but i shall give it a go there are certainly a lot of sites that claim theyve got linus to boot onto the NZ series of Clie. as i say i shall have a go anyway.

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