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mike85gn

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Posted: Nov. 04 2004,00:23

So I have a good working IBM NetVista thin client PC here. It's been pretty much useless for the past few years, it has been retired from its previous role. This device has no hard disk, but it has a built-in Compact Flash card slot for storage, 64mb RAM, 233mhz x86 processor, 2 USB 1.1 ports, unknown video, and what appears to be an SIS chipset.

Has anyone tried something like this before? The thin PC is designed to boot from the CF card to access network resources, it should be possible to have it boot to Linux as well.

Is there a list of supported hardware somewhere?

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davide

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Posted: Nov. 04 2004,12:01

it must be possibile.
search the forum as for dsl and flash cards.
also there are plenty of methods for booting from network (also an option is booting from a usb stick if your pc has a usb plug) previously discussed in the forum. can't help yo ucause i'm not a geek, but I know it's possibile to do that painlessly.

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caulktel

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Posted: Nov. 04 2004,16:23

Hi,

I must have the same Netvista as you do,mine is a N2200 8363, and I tried everyway I know to get it to boot from compact flash with no success. It would be so cool to have one of these running DSL, but it only wants to boot from the network, and I could not get the proper server running on the network to pull it off. The conclusion I came to is that a person would have to write a differant bios for these machines to get them to directly boot from compact flash, and that would be so cool because they have all the processor power and video to work very well with DSL, and they are so small. Here is a link to IBM's site:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support....c=en_US

Hope that helps.

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Posted: Nov. 04 2004,18:25

Would this help you guys out?

http://www-1.ibm.com/support....c=en_US

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Boot from Flash
Click the Boot from Flash icon to change a workstation or workstation group
resource’s settings so that it boots from CompactFlash. Refer to the product help
for more details about this operation.
For Turbolinux 7 thin clients, use the “Setup Network Connections” on page 19
icon to configure workstations to boot from the CompactFlash card.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support....c=en_US

Brian
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Posted: Nov. 04 2004,18:26

or you could just do a frugal install to a CF card and run it off of that.

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