On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM, P B <belgrad...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I'm buying a phone (the acer neotouch (a.k.a the F1 or s200)) which > has windows mobile 6.5 preinstalled. Is it possible to install the > Android O/S onto the same phone and be able to choose which O/S to use > whenever - similar to partitioning the hard drive on a pc with Windows > and Ubuntu for example?
All you would really need is either 1. A boot loader that runs on your phone that allows you to choose which OS to boot into, or 2. A "main" OS that allows you to directly boot into another OS, such as Linux (with kexec enabled). However, for #1, you have 2 problems: A. There most likely isn't an "out-of-the-box" boot loader that will run on your phones HW that you can dual boot, and B. In order to modify/replace the boot loader, you have to modify an area of the flash that, on a lot of phones, is protected #2 might be easiest, if you can get write access to the flash device on your phone, and the bootloader on your phone knows how to boot Linux, and there are sufficient Linux drivers to operate your phone... ;) -James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
