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Yesterday I checked out NetBSD (Unix). They have prepared distributions for a wide array of PCs and Devices... I took a chance and tried one for Strong ARM iPAQs (even though rx3115 is Friendly ARM). Another no go... But I will say that they have the nicest bootloader of all the options I've worked with so far.

Now that I have my minimum posts in, thanx to Blogging in this thread and trying to help some seemingly lost first time posters, I can finally post outside links to the forum. HUZZAH!!!!

There are a few things I've got for download by anyone interested.

Here's the Universal BootLoader with GUI for iPAQ from chrismrulz, without the suspect Vista Drivers. So (I believe) it only works on XP boxes.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/7anraar1tkc3lz1/BootLoader.rar

I had tried a few overclock programs recently... ClockWizard, Pocket Hack Master and XCPUscalar.

ClockWizard is freeware and worth exactly that IMHO. I found it buggy to run...

Pocket Hack Master supports a lot of processors including the s3c2440. I got a version from somewhere with a working serial#. Again, I didn't care for it despite rave reviews elsewhere for other devices.

XCPUscalar worked the best for me, even though there is no official support for Friendly ARM. I found a version which is a free install cab of this $ware. There are a few tricks for some to get the scaling feature to work and that helped me get her configured... I included a .txt of the advice.

All 3 overclocks in one .rar file are here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/636a5cl8ofzaa2z/OverClock.rar

As a "best of" I broke out XCPUscalar separately.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/z593cqhbnvegpg9/XCPUScalar.arm.CAB

Along with the advice .txt.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/igoragriu8lc2ha/XCPU tricks.txt

Here's the LiveRAMdisk of Angstrom Linux for iPAQ h2200.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/i61956852696grp/Angstrom-x11-image-liveramdisk-2007.12-h2200.exe

Just load it on your SD card and execute it from there to boot into Angstrom. Check out their guide to installing Angstrom under WindowsCE.

http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/WinCeQuickInstall

Of the two methods (LiveRAMdisc or Loopback Image), I think Loopback Image seems more promising...

Check their Repository to see which machines are supported by stable releases.

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/releases/2007.12/images/

Or visit http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ for more information. They are heavily into embedded.

Here's the NetBSD files I grabbed all in one .rar file. This executable will boot NetBSD for the following devices: IPAQ h3100, h3600, h3660, h3900, Jornado 720(US/Many Europe/Japan) & Jornado 820(US/Japan).

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ync2ltv3l7oo4si/NetBSD.rar

Inside the folder are the 3 files you need to boot NetBSD under WindowsCE (hpcboot.exe, netbsd-IPAQ.gz and netbsd-IPAQ.symbols.gz) Put all three files on the root of your memory card and execute bootloader to boot into NetBSD.

Also in the .rar is a list of the md5 checksums for each file.

NetBSD has a lot of support for older hardware. Look them up: http://netbsd.org/

Or check out their long list of supported machines.

http://netbsd.org/ports/

If anyone needs a widget for verifying md5 checksums under Windows OS, here's an outstanding one from Jem Berkes. I've used this freeware many times (On XP and Win7). A nice, small footprint program that just works great.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/bhebw4ozo6dz767/md5sum checker.rar