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Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Hi Brandon
Just had a browse of your webpage, but I couldn't resist
"you shouldn't have came" HO HO Smile

Back to the dead cows for you!!

Aitch

chicks · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 65

Well, I did get the $10 PC to boot FreeDOS, using the "File Copy" method here: http://www.pcengines.ch/freedos.htm

Whoopie...

Also tried the PCENGINES ALIX BUILD from here: http://www.imedialinux.com/

but it says the CPU doesn't have 1:31, whatever that means. This linux build is supposedly specially build for the Geode LX and GX.

I'll follow up on their forum.

Brandon · Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 111 Location: New York

chicks · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 65

Well, I did finally get it to run Linux. An ancient, very small distro called MuLinux. Even got X running on it.

MuLinux is based on a very old kernel, and doesn't find the ethernet adapter, but it did find the PS/2 mouse, keyboard and sound card. Even uglier than the stock WinCE, though. Still booting into FreeDOS, then boot MuLinux from a batch file.

Just have to find a more modern distro that will run on this thing, one that looks a lot more like Puppy...

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4776 Location: GB

Kolibri

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Nice one Sage

For those interested Kolibri is a floppy based EDIT: OS
written in assembly language, ideal for small systems

See 'how to' video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep9SroXp_2M&feature=related

Aitch

Edit: I stand corrected Smile

klu9 · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 345

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4776 Location: GB

Assembler has to be the way forward - ready-made market for embedded devices. Unless, of course, you're skilled in binary arithmetic......

ThinIsGreat · Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Posts: 9

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4776 Location: GB

If you can get any machine Linux booted you can load a NIC manually and enter the settings ditto. In the alternative, all such machines will respond to a proper DUN modem. Getting connected is the most basic function that *nixes address. Only one man tried to evade the raw technology and then there were Winmodems......

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Brandon, Chicks

Hi guys,

My research on thin clients led me to a couple of articles/threads for geode based linux installs, which might help those interested in the $10 box

http://thunderlord.net.pl/evo/

http://www.larwe.com/technical/geode_linux.html

Neither is particularly new, but the compaq link looks eminently modifiable for any linux, including puppy

As I understand it, the compaq T20 & the wintern were the same motherboard/processor combination, though the support chips may have been different

I'm interested in something similar, as I want to put together a low power system on 12v supply, so this sort of box is a good starter

I'd be interested to hear how you, or anyone else, get on
On another thread, I think Raffy got puppy running on something like this

Smile

Aitch

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

ThinIsGreat · Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Posts: 9

How about this machine, 1Ghz, 256M/256M, HP / Compaq Thin Client T5000 Model T5700? Is this worth to try Seamonkey?

georgepds · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 19

Rank puppie newbie here. I purchased the machine below and was able to load puppy onto the supplied 4 gB hard drive. Because the machine cannot boot from cd rom , I removed the hard drive and put it into another machine that could. I loaded live puppy onto the hard drive (using the default puppy installer), and then put the drive back into the compaq... it booted right up

Connected to the internet without problem.. Kudos to the puppy team

--g

http://www.accurateit.com/details.asp?iid=1255
$25 USD Shipped in the US...

chris667 · Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 32

I've just bought a shiny new Viglen MPC[url]. It costs about GB£140 including delivery and VAT, so quite reasonable for a new computer.
The default setup is its own tweaked version of Xubuntu. I like buying British, but sadly initial impressions are not good. Mine doesn't seem particularly well sorted. I wonder why it wasn't supplied with Puppy in the first place, to be honest.
Still, tonight I'll fix that. Cool