Micks Distractions

This howto cov­ers one way of run­ning famil­iar Linux from your CF, SD, or MMC card.

OK, it doesn’t actu­ally boot from SD, but uses a snazzy Linux trick called pivot_root. Which switches over one root with another. This, IMHO, is prob­a­bly the best way of doing it apart from actu­ally directly boot­ing from SD. Although, I’ve only tried this on a 38xx based iPAQ it should work for all hand­helds based on famil­iar. Heck, it should work for any­thing really.

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If you have an iPAQ installed with famil­iar Linux and want it to con­nect to the net using your Nokia mobile via GPRS; then this is how you do it.
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This is frus­trat­ing. Joomla is fan­tas­tic, but there are areas that are still very naive and under-coded. Take for exam­ple RSS feeds. If you’re behind a proxy, (aka cor­po­rate fire­wall), then you’re out of luck. How do you do it then?
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I had the sit­u­a­tion at work where I wanted to run Clearcase under a Solaris 10 zone. With a bit of coerc­ing it’s pos­si­ble to do, and doesn’t impact much of the global zone at all. If you don’t know what Clearcase is, then this still may be handy infor­ma­tion to know. Undoubt­edly, there are other appli­ca­tions that rely on load­able mod­ules.
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My aging 1GHz PC was creak­ing under ths strain of run­ning too many vir­tual PCs. So I decided to upgrade to a much bet­ter, faster PC. I even­tu­ally set­tled on an AMD64 based PC, (200G HD, 3G DDR2 RAM). Basi­cally a nice cool, (lit­er­ally as well), box. The only trou­ble is that I couldn’t get my vmware to run. Aaaaaaaaaaargh. This is a short howto on what I had to do to get it to run.
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