Running Linux on my Nokia 9290 Communicator Phone

armantic · *nix forums beginner Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

I am running a version of ELKS which is a distro that boots off of 2
floppies; a boot and a root disk. I am able to boot into ELKS using my
Nokia 9290 with images of these floppies and an 80186 emulator. The
problem I'm having is this will make the root Linux dive a read only
RAM drive. I should be able to use the boot disk to load the Linux root
off of a fixed disk. Is there any support available for EPOC32 file
system in Linux? Or preferably, is it possible to repartition my flash
card to Linux ext2 file system, or any other supported file system
using p3nfs? I am by no means an expert, and I found 0 documentation on
any of this. I don't even know where to start. If any one else out
there is experimenting with this, please share! THANKS! ...aaron

Bill Marcum · *nix forums Guru Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 1264

On 9 Jul 2005 12:57:58 -0700, armantic
<armantic101@hotmail.com> wrote:

armantic · *nix forums beginner Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

True, but ELKS also has the abillity to compile in
programs/devcies/kernel mods. Is it possible to compile in kernel
support for if a 128 mb MultiMedia Card so I can load a larger more
robust linux? The emulator I use only supports the 80186. However, due
to the open SDK, I would imagine you could emulate just about anything.
Unfortunatly I am a novice programmer. Nokia would not release any
specs on the native CPU to me but it clocks around 100 MHZ or so. I
dont know if this helps but the emulator was written to run DOS and
loads the drive with a command like DEVICE=EPOCFS.SYS c:\ in the
CONFIG.SYS file. EPOCFS.SYS is a binnary made for XTM (the emulator)
XTM is not open source or very well supported.

http://www.nb-info.co.uk/

Much Thanks!
....aaron

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