[aklug] Re: Feeling masochistic again lol

From: David Prentice <ak.prentice@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Feb 27 2011 - 20:12:16 AKST

The thinclients we have are by Wyse. They look like the Vx0LE model series,
but I couldn't tell you for certain which models they are. They're used as
Xen/Citrix clients.
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Scott Carnahan <scott@ravenmoonart.com>wrote:

> 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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