[aklug] Re: Feeling masochistic again lol

If that is what I think it is we had some of them on base. They only need a
small boot system to start and connect to the server that runs it. After
that everything runs off the server, and through the client. The client
doesn't really run anything. The ones we had were silver(manufacturer, model
and anything else just flew out of my head) and I am looking for the docs on
them. If they are the same idea/type of thin client then the boot system
fits on a floppy.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Brendgard [mailto:brendgard@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 5:34 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: [aklug] Feeling masochistic again lol

I picked up some thin clients and was hoping somebody knew some info on them
that I can't find on the net. They are IBM Netvista model 2800 I believe,
type 8364-tus.

It has a 64 meg flashcard set up as primary IDE-0, does anybody know for
sure how big of one it will recognise? What little I have found suggests
nothing bigget than 128 mb, which would sort of be a bit small to install an
OS on.

It has a 40 pin IDE header built into the board as secondary. Does anymbody
know how big of a hard drive it will recognise? My guess is 2gb, but I'm not
finding much on it at all. I would have to get a smaller one I'm sure, and
use one of the HD mounts that take up a PCI slot, then fabricate a power
cord to plug into the square tap built into the board.

If that don't work, I might be able to use an older SATA controler card to
run an e-sata enclosure. Wouldn't that be something? Lol.

What I have seen on the net suggests it will recognise up to 128 mb of RAM.

It has USB ports built in so I'm assuming it will recognise a USB hard
drive. Anybody have any guesses as to whether there is a size limit on what
it will see?

Is there anyway to get it to boot from a CD-ROM, floppy, USB flash drive,
etc? Might need to know how to do that in order to install any OS on the
thing.

Last, but not least, any suggestions on a distro I could put on it? I need a
GUI. To be useful I would also need to be able to have an FTP client I can
use to upload files in groups, or perhaps Samba to share an external drive.
More than that would be gravy.

OK, so I'm nut. Looks like it might be a fun thing to sink my teeth into
though, and it runs QUIET lol. Ain't tried much of anything yet besides boot
it up to see whether it ran or not.

Thanks!

      
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