Hi Radim!
IMHO, you would be better off upgrading your MP900
(with the WinCE3.0
) to what is essentially the MP900c which runs on WinCE.Net 4.2!
This is easy to do with a small CF card with the upgraded ROM firmware... highly recommend. Even better is to upgrade to the Cmonex 4.2 ROM as she did a super job many years ago creating a custom ROM with lots of great programs and utilities. If you install Opera mini5 and use a cheap ebay $7 Ambicom WL54 wifi card
(or Netgear ma401
) you can surf the internet including nearly all
Https:// sites using much more secure WPA
(than the unsecure WEP WinCE 3.0 is limited to
)
You need to be certain your MP900 has the correct Bootloader version before flashing the CMonex 4.2 ROM though!!! Upgrading the bootloader is also easy. You can start by navigating to Control Panel => NEC Firmware info: Bootloader is listed-- It has to be 4.10 before flashing the new CMonex ROM. HPCFactor has the bootloader and stock MP900 ROM
(NOT recommended as it is a bare bones ROM, IMO
) in the downloads section. The CMonex ROM upgrade is in a separate special repository as I recall
(Jlime files are located there too
) at
http://repository.hpcfactor.com.
I can walk you through all this to save you time, frustration, even moments of fear should your screen turn black on reboot. There are a few tricks that can save you time and trouble. Again must start with BOOTLOADER 4.10 before custom ROM flashing. I have one of several MP900 still running WinCE 3.0 so I will upgrade its bootloader and then the ROM and give you all the details, if you are interested.
You will be pleased with the upgrade and should still be able to boot into JLime I believe Dual boot should be possible.
Grand Poobah and HPC:Factor/Member Emeritus Rich Hawley is an expert on building custom ROMs and wrote a tutorial years ago on this. Perhaps he will chime in on this
( cicadas willing
).
Welcome aboard!
joval
posted from my Jornada/Devuan/RasPi "hybrid contraption"
Edited by joval 2021-05-21 3:02 PM