[aklug] Re: Feeling masochistic again lol

Wow, I think your evil now. I have this idea of getting them and seeing if I
can set up a couple of guest terminals off my server for my house when
people want to check their mail or surf so they don't have to use my system,

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Brendgard [mailto:brendgard@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 6:45 PM
To: scott@ravenmoonart.com
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: [aklug] Re: Feeling masochistic again lol

It is a thin client, and that is how they are designed to run. I'm trying t=
o get it to run in a way it was not designed to run, put an OS on it, rathe=
r than have it run from the server. That's why I'm looking for some info on=
 it lol. And it does not have a floppy, nor even a floppy controler. I'm no=
t even sure yet if I can get it to see a CD-ROM, let alone boot from one. I=
 have to get things on my bench to where I can play with it more first lol.

Thanks,

--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Scott Carnahan <scott@ravenmoonart.com> wrote:

> From: Scott Carnahan <scott@ravenmoonart.com>
> Subject: RE: [aklug] Feeling masochistic again lol
> To: "'Kurt Brendgard'" <brendgard@yahoo.com>, aklug@aklug.org
> Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 7:01 PM
> 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=A0 floppy.
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> Scott
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Brendgard [mailto:brendgard@yahoo.com]
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> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 5:34 PM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] Feeling masochistic again lol
>=20
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.=20
>=20
> 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.
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> What I have seen on the net suggests it will recognise up
> to 128 mb of RAM.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.=20
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> Thanks!
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