Greetings! I have an Archos PMA400, the famous Archos media player with some early qTopia version. I have a newbish question: is there any way to install something.... well.... better on it? Because I can't find software sompatible with it. Well, found several applications, but 99% of them doesn't even work, though they're installed perfectly. (These were packages .ipk, haven't seen any source versions of anything for compiling on PMA, not even sure if PMA can comile at all).

So, again, is there any way to install some other OS, well, some other Linux most probably, on the PMA?

Thanks in advance

I did some searching and I did not find anything out there..... I think it must be possible however it is not documented very well in any case :-)

Regards,
Johan Louwers.

Thanks... Guess it should be possible, yeah, after all people succeeded in installing Linux on Pocket PC's...

I would look for Qtopia community forums and the like. You often find that spinoff groups develop their own solutions.

Greetings,

my first post.

I just found this site

http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showapps.php?cat=1

I don't know how much works on the PMA400. I have only had it a few days. But I have compiled and run a small C program. There is a cross-compiler that runs under Linux. I downloaded it but didn't bookmark it. I'm trying to find it.

http://www.archos.com/products/ip_ce.../_pop_sdk.html

Found it.

psik

There is something called openpma at www.openpma.org.

I have insfalled it and am logged in with opera right now.
I don't adviise typing long messages with this kbd.

psik