i have an ipaq 3800 that i have flashed to familiar, but now i cant get it to flash back...
well, i did it
here is the info (in case someone else around here searches for the info)...
ok, so with win98, the terminal emulator used made all the difference.
neither indigo nor hyperterminal could send the wince.gz to the ipaq.
absolute telnet did - first time out of the box... and that was it...
so, to recap, this is how i reflashed my ipaq 3800 from linux to wince...
1 - set up a serial connection btwn computer and ipaq (chapter 3 of the ipaq
faq)
2 - reset the ipaq. select serial connection (far left hard button on
bootloader page) -> the boot prompt will appear in the terminal emulator
window
3 - follow the instructions of chapter 9 in the ipaq faq ("Reinstalling
PocketPC")
it was kind of hard to cobble this information together, as handhelds.org is
down (and seems to have been for some time - like right after i flashed to
linux some 4 - 6 mos. ago
), so i would like to thank dano, gordon and
bobw for helping me out with this...
+++ references +++
chapter 3 (ipaq faq):
http://mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/WWW/LinuxoniPAQ.html#SERIAL-TERMINAL-CONNECTIONchapter 9 (ipaq faq):
http://mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/WWW/LinuxoniPAQ.html#REINSTALLING-POCKETPCipaq faq:
http://mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/WWW/LinuxoniPAQ.htmlabsolute telnet:
http://www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/