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Subject: more skiff questions
From: nathanw@mit.edu (Nathan J. Williams)
Date: 13 Jun 2000 14:35:10 -0400
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A few more questions, now that I can talk to the hardware.

What exactly do you do to load kernels? I've been trying to send files
to it with xmodem from kermit and minicom, and failing with both.

Exact procedure:

1) type "load kernel" at the bootloader prompt
2) tell local program to start sending

Minicom, for example, chokes with a lot of 

Retry 0: NAK on sector
Xmodem sectors/kbytes sent:  88/11k
Retry 0: NAK on sector

I feel like I must be doing something fundamentally wrong, at some
stage.

Second: Bootloader sources and relevance. The sources on handhelds.org
are what you say was written for the Skiff and then hacked for the
iPaq and corresponding develeopment boards. Do you expect that those
sources should be beatable back into shape for the Skiff? 

If you have known-useful binaries of any of these, I'm sure they'd be
useful.

        - Nathan
   
