[App_rpt-users] Fun with Limey and HP T5710 so far

Sun Feb 24 00:04:48 UTC 2013

Got acid running on my t5630. But i had to change the flash drive for a small 6 gig drive. A 4 gig one would do..

Just replace the flash drive by a 44 pin ide to cf card adaptor and buy a smal cf format hard disk something like this model number ST650211CF as the HD

The adator look like this : http://www.ebay.ca/itm/CF-Compact-Flash-to-2-5-IDE-44-Pin-Male-Adapter-Card-Type-I-II-III-MicroDrive-/170856977729?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c7de9541&_uhb=1#ht_2893wt_1130

Envoyé de mon iPad

Le 23 Feb 2013 à 18:14, "Tony KT9AC" <kt9ac at ameritech.net> a écrit :

> Could someone please post a working combination of Linux distro and version of Allstar/Asterisk that is working for them on a Thin Client? I currently have the most current version of ArchLinux running nicely but can't get past the Allstar compile (tried both ACID and Limey 1.1.5 tarballs).
> 
> I guess I don't care what the distro is, I just have three Thin Clients than I need to get ready to deploy.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
> 
> 
> On 2/21/2013 7:57 PM, Benjamin L. Naber wrote:
>> Limey Linux will only work on a few mini-ITX boards. I was lucky that I
>> got mine running on a Neoware CA-22. However, the VIA version did not
>> work, so I used the i686 version. Booted up just fine.
>> 
>> I have noticed I've had plenty trouble with the HP thin clients with
>> other Linux distros for embedded machines. The older Neowares seem to
>> run much better, and faster. I'd like to provide an answer for that, but
>> I honestly don't have a clue why.
>> 
>> DO NOT TRY TO RUN ACID ON A THUMB DRIVE!!!
>> 
>> Limey linux, when booted, loads a compresses image to RAM, then
>> decompresses it. Limey Linux runs from RAM. ACiD does not. If you try
>> it, not only will ACiD be slow to boot on a thumb drive, the thumb drive
>> will die because of all the read/write cycles that are meant for a
>> spinning hard drive. An allstar user/node owner in Pennsylvania reported
>> the slow booting.
>> 
>> When dd'ing to flash drive, for most cases you want to specify bs=16k at
>> the end of the line. You may even try "gunzip -c <.img> | of=/dev/sdx
>> bs=16k". That is the line I used on DamnSmallLinux console to burn the
>> Limey Linux image file to the neoware's flash drive. There is zero need
>> to run cfdisk or any of that mess before hand.
>> 
>> If I remember right, svcfg is located in the /usr/bin, or the /usr/sbin
>> directory. If it is in one of those two and you cannot do a svcfg from
>> the prompt, chances are a path got screwed up somewhere. At the prompt,
>> you might be able to do /usr/sbin/svcfg and that should work.
>> 
>> If you want to try running ACiD on thin client, my best advice is to get
>> a USB hard drive, and run it from there. You may have to play around
>> with the formating on the USB hard drive for it to work correctly. Some
>> BIOSs do not like anything other than VFAT or NTFS for booting purposes.
>> You may be able to make a double partition and and have VFAT for
>> booting, and ext3 for anything else. Have fun with grub or lilo to make
>> sure it boots from the correct partition.
>> 
>> If you really want to get crazy with it, use of of your Linux servers as
>> a PXE boot server, and have the thin client load the Limey Linux from
>> there. Not sure how well save would work though.....
>> 
>> ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
>> allstar node 28569
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 08:51 -0800, Tony KT9AC wrote:
>>> Here are some notes from my first attempt to get Limey up and running
>>> on a T5710 Thin Client (1.2Ghz Transmeta Efferon, 512MB flash chip
>>> board (not drive) and 512MB ram - PM705AA model).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It's not as easy as the Drupal page would lead one to believe...Limey
>>> is actually ArchLinux and not CentOS like the ACID install is, so a
>>> lot of expected stuff doesn't work. I'm comfortable with Linux and
>>> willing to work through this, and perhaps a small group could write up
>>> their experiences with this tier of hardware on the Drupal site.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Notes:
>>>       * Downloaded PenDrive and Ubuntu server ISO to make a bootable
>>>         4GB USB drive (this allowed persistent storage of the cfimg
>>>         files under the /cdrom/doc folder).
>>>       * Booted into USB Rescue and ran fdisk to delete two Windows
>>>         partitions off of 512MB flash.
>>>       * Ran the "dd if=cfimg-1.1.5 of=/dev/sdb" and wrote out 128MB
>>>         image just fine.
>>>       * Rebooted 5710 and it stuck at "USB Hub detected". Inserted
>>>         above USB drive and it proceeded to a login prompt. It does
>>>         not see the URI at this point. Tried the 1.1.4 and 1.1.5
>>>         version for VIA here. Tried the i686-1.1.5 version and it
>>>         didn't even get this far.
>>>       * No "This is your first time..." script ran like the Drupal
>>>         page says. No eth0 came up either.
>>>       * Found out Limey is actually "Archlinux" and found the commands
>>>         to get on the internet.
>>>       * Ran "ip link set <ip> dev eth0 up" and "ip addr add
>>>         <ip/netmask/> dev eth0"
>>>       * Was able to ping my default gateway and then
>>>         edit /etc/resolv.conf to add "nameserver 8.8.8.8".
>>>       * How does one save changes back to the flash? The "svcfg"
>>>         doesn't seem to exist...
>>>       * Once on the network, I switched to /usr/src and ran "getsrc"
>>>         which downloaded Asterisk. I tried to do a "configure" but
>>>         that failed. Read the README and did a usbradio_install but
>>>         that also failed.
>>>       * This is a *really* stripped down version of Linux that uses
>>>         128MB of memory after installed. I am comfortable around Linux
>>>         and CentOS and realize Limey isn't a beginner's O/S, one that
>>>         I'm willing to work through.
>>>       * I might buy an 8GB USB drive and use that with a regular ACID
>>>         install to get more functionality as a try of Ubuntu Server
>>>         didn't have enough disk for an install (it did find all the
>>>         devices just fine under Rescue mode since it's a newer
>>>         distro), or perhaps CentOS 6.3 and roll my own compile of
>>>         Allstar.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Comments/suggestions are welcome!
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tony
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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