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Dear Lazy Web, where could I get a datasheet for following Casio 2.8″ LCD?

It originates from Olympus SP-550UZ camera, seems to be 2.8″ and has 2653 written on it

Today I had an opportunity to toy around with Lenovo X60s. Of course, I immediately wanted to try Gentoo on it
Unfortunately the machine has no internal CD device and I have no external one either… First though was netboot. So last night I fiddled around with dhcp stuff on Linksys WRT54G (I didn’t want to set up my workstation as DHCP server) and set up a tftp server to provide netboot image. Fortunately it was already too late and as I didn’t have the X60s yet, so I went to bed.
Machine arrived today. After confirming it was able to boot using network card and USB, I decided to use another approach. As I had a CF card reader laying around and as my camera has 2GB CF card I was wondering whether it is possible to use these.
Indeed it is. All you need is the ISO image of the installation CD, sys-boot/syslinux package. And this HOWTO for a start

Anyway.. using the minimal install CD it wasn’t that easy because minimal install cd was unable to mount VFAT partitions. So I had to use extlinux instead of syslinux:

• First, I formatted the only partition on CF with ext2 filesystem: mke2fs /dev/sde1
• Then copied master boot record: dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sde
• Then copied the files from livecd and did the sed trick according to the LiveUSB doc
• Then renamed the syslinux.cfg to extlinux.conf (Note the bold part, I spent ~10 minutes trying to figure out why syslinux doesn’t load the configuration…
• And finally installed extlinux stuff: extlinux -i /media/disk-1

I wish I could take a picture of the machine booting from the CF card, but well.. I can’t, because card is in use…

Next stop: crypted root..

Why there aren’t many in Estonia:

There are no high-tech companys in Estonia and won’t be any because the politicians and bureaucrats are just a**holes and retards.

Hardware is costing 3-4 times more as in US and when dealing with high-technology equipment it takes about two months of dealing with Estonian Post and Estonian Tax and Customs, by the time you get the stuff imported its value has already dropped ~40%.

E-stonia, my ass…