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On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:20:00AM -0400, John Abreau wrote: > I just picked up an old Corel Netwinder on eBay, and I've discovered > that the netwinder.org ftp site no longer carries the firmware images, > due to DMCA issues. Fortunately I have an old dm-3.1-15a.tar.gz > tarball lying around that I downloaded back in 2000. > > As I recall, the Netwinder had a tiny hard drive, but I've got an old > 80 GB laptop hard drive to upgrade it with. > > The dm-3.1-15a.tar.gz tarball contains a 2.2 kernel. > > Has anyone gotten a more recent kernel to work on a Netwinder? > I'd like to run a 2.6 kernel if possible, and ideally to upgrade the > entire system to CentOS 5. > > As I recall, the Netwinder OS was based on a version of Redhat from > before the Fedora/RHEL split. Debian has an active ARM branch. See http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ where it says: As of our latest release, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0, the following ARM sub-architectures are fully supported: * footbridge: we fully support Netwinder machines and * Simtec's CATS evaluation board .... and a bunch more So, yes, 2.6 kernel and all. Maybe I should dig my Netwinder out. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
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