Re: Workpad Z50 RAM

>>> I have a Z50 with all accessories sitting on a shelf (for a long
>>> time) and wonder if you use Linux or native Z50 PS?
>> What's "PS" here?  All I can think of is "power supply", and that
>> makes no sense whatever when contrasted to Linux.
> I believe our friend accidentally typo-ed the "P" key in place of the
> "O" for "OS," but that's just my guess.

Doh!  Of course.  That at least makes sense, which none of my other
theories did.

>> (I can create bootable z50 CFs for NetBSD if anyone wants.)
> What would you put on this image?  I've been building 4.0 packages on
> the z50 with distccd to mooch resources off of another computer, but
> it's still painfully slow :P

What would I put on it?

- A small msdos boot partition.  (Mine is some 128M, but I have an 8G
   microdrive in there, so I can afford the space, and I'd like room
   for not just a couple of gzipped kernels and hpcboot, but about a
   dozen uncompressed kernels, hpcboot, a couple of other programs, and
   a fair bit of spare space - it's about 1/3 full right now.)

- One or more partitions set up as desired (I'd check with the
   "customer" before freezing the partitioning).  I'd install NetBSD
   there.  (It'd probably be 3.1, because that's what I have running on
   my z50.)  I'd install either the 3.1 distribution or my slightly
   hacked 3.1, as desired by the "customer".

> It's really not that hard to install it yourself:

No...not once you know what you're doing.  As a first introduction to
z50 hackery it's somewhat daunting.  I was lucky; my z50 came with a
"340M" microdrive with NetBSD already installed on it.

> (another QC NetBSD user)

Cool!

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