[aklug] Re: Feeling masochistic again lol

That's what people keep calling me for some strange reason, specially my ki=
ds ROTFL. I have it sitting naked on my bench now, and it did see a combo o=
f a 128 mb and a 256 mb, and tested it, so I have hopes it will see 512. To=
morrow, I need to go hit at least one car dealership and see if I can find =
some really tiny wiring harness conectors to splice together a power tap co=
rd and see if it will see/boot from a CD-ROM. If it does, I might yet get a=
n OS on it. The fact that it sees more than the 256 I was reading on the ne=
t gives me hope that it might see a 2gb compact flash card in its reader as=
 well. That would be nice. On the down side, it has a token ring network ca=
rd in it. That would splain why somebody had a 10/100 card in one of the PC=
I slots, and reduce the number of cards I can put in it to make it more usa=
ble myself. Hey, if it can be kept real cheap, and if it can keep me from g=
oing stark raving normal.....

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

> From: Scott Carnahan <scott@ravenmoonart.com>
> Subject: RE: [aklug] Re: Feeling masochistic again lol
> To: "'Kurt Brendgard'" <brendgard@yahoo.com>
> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
> Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 11:55 PM
> 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,
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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 6:45 PM
> To: scott@ravenmoonart.com
> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] Re: Feeling masochistic again lol
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> It is a thin client, and that is how they are designed to
> run. I'm trying t=3D
> o get it to run in a way it was not designed to run, put an
> OS on it, rathe=3D
> r than have it run from the server. That's why I'm looking
> for some info on=3D
> it lol. And it does not have a floppy, nor even a floppy
> controler. I'm no=3D
> t even sure yet if I can get it to see a CD-ROM, let alone
> boot from one. I=3D
> have to get things on my bench to where I can play with it
> more first lol.
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> Thanks,
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> --- On Sun, 2/27/11, Scott Carnahan <scott@ravenmoonart.com>
> wrote:
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> > 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=3DA0 floppy.
> >=3D20
> >=3D20
> > Scott
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> >=3D20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kurt Brendgard [mailto:brendgard@yahoo.com]
> >=3D20
> > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 5:34 PM
> > To: aklug@aklug.org
> > Subject: [aklug] Feeling masochistic again lol
> >=3D20
> > 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.
> >=3D20
> > 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.
> >=3D20
> > 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.=3D20
> >=3D20
> > 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.
> >=3D20
> > What I have seen on the net suggests it will recognise
> up
> > to 128 mb of RAM.
> >=3D20
> > 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?
> >=3D20
> > 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.
> >=3D20
> > 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.=3D20
> >=3D20
> > Thanks!
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