> -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.
