[App_rpt-users] for those Limey Linux and or D525MW users who are brave enough

Jim Duuuude telesistant at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 6 14:38:37 UTC 2011


Thin clients?? What do you think we are, and eating disorder clinic or something ?? :-) :-)

First of all, Limey only supports VERY specific motherboard, of which that is not one.
Also, since it runs entirely out of RAM, you need more then that for it to work in a reasonable
manner.

JIM

> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:55:25 -0400
> From: Ramesh at va3uv.com
> To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] for those Limey Linux and or D525MW users who are brave enough
> 
> Hi Jim!
> 
> I have been testing chan_simpleusb on the HP T5710 platform - running 
> ACID with a whopping 256MB of RAM.  I was going to try the Limey Linux 
> install to see how this would handle on these thin clients.  However, 
> based on your note below... I am wondering whether Limey is even worth 
> pursuing....
> 
> 
> ACID and chan_simpleusb seems to work great... I am almost done with 
> week 2 of my block test!
> 
> The only snag (and it may just be cosmetic) is that I see the INIT 2.86 
> (or whatever) reloading on the screen - but that doesn't see to affect 
> the performance of the system.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Ramesh.
> 
> 
> On 06/10/2011 9:50 AM, Jim Duuuude wrote:
> > Also, this release requires 1GB of RAM (the original 1.1.5 only required
> > 512 MB).
> > I figured it was time not to be "squosen" into a barely-large-enough
> > memory space.
> >
> > JIM
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > From: telesistant at hotmail.com
> > To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:46:45 -0700
> > Subject: [App_rpt-users] for those Limey Linux and or D525MW users who
> > are brave enough
> >
> > I have compiled a test version of Limey Linux version 1.1.5 that appears
> > to properly support the new Intel D525MW Atom motherboard.
> >
> > This is an 'augmented' version of the i686-suported-1.1.5 release, so
> > it *should* work on all the previously-supported i686 processors, also.
> >
> > There were some rather major changes (necessary to support SATA
> > interfaces) in the hard disk driver stuff (even for those MB's that only
> > have IDE), so it would be nice if some people could verify that this still
> > works on non-D525MW motherboards (at least the ones that work in
> > the normal release).
> >
> > I have tested this release on both a D525MW and the D945GCLF series
> > motherboards, and it seems to work just fine.
> >
> > Also, if you have 5 minutes to wait for it to boot (since the SWINE boot
> > loader does
> > not support anything faster then USB 1.1 speed, YUCH!), you can flash
> > the distro onto a USB pen drive (>= 128 MB), and it will work. Once the
> > OS loads, it runs at full speed, just the initial boot load is PAINFULLY
> > slow.
> >
> > If you dare, here is the URL for this version:
> >
> >
> > http://stats.allstarlink.org/limeylinux/downloads/cfimg-D525MW-1.1.5.tar.gz
> >
> > JIM WB6NIL
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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