> -I've discovered that the power button is really a standby button,
> like on Palms. However, I did `shutdown -h now` from the shell and
> afterwards it wouldn't turn back on. In order to make it come back I
> had to take off the battery cover, press the reset button, take out
> the battery, and put everything back. Is it like this under OpenBSD
> too?

Not exactly.  But you will find you take the battery out once in a
while for problems just like this.  It is a problem with all
soft-power-button devices, I suppose.

> Is taking out the battery really a necessary step (it wouldn't
> turn on until after I did that, but perhaps it was actually just that
> the battery lock switch was 'open' that it was rejecting)?

That switch must be closed for it to power on.

> -I don't have a CF Wifi card yet, so I'll be installing from the
> harddrive. However, I want to blow away the partition table and set it
> up nicely. I'm not sure if this is logistically possible. What have
> other people done? I thought, perhaps I could put the install sets on
> an SD card but does the ramdisk kernel have support for that compiled
> in?

A wide variety of USB peripherals are supported, but you will need the
additionally-purchased host USB cable and potentially a powered hub,
since the zaurus does not supply a lot of power on the USB port.  As
well, in recent code it is also possible to use cdcef -- using the
slave USB cable that is included another machine will see it is as a
network device.

The SD support is brand new, post-4.1 code, and still has issues.  I
would be cautious with that.

> -How do you people with zaurii trade data from them with other
> computers? Purely over the network? With SD cards? USB hubs +
> thumbdrives?

We sync our repositories and commit over wireless we find in the bars
where we drink, of course.

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