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Thanks to everyone who replied, I think I was too caught up in
getting these to run with a "thin" Linux install.<br>
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I am going to order a few adapters and new 8GB CF drives. I did
learn that the CF drives work in parallel versus USB sticks that
work in serial and therefore are slower.<br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/23/2013 6:04 PM, pete M wrote:<br>
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<div>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..</div>
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<div>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 <a moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"
href="http://www.cafr.ebay.ca/itm/Seagate-1-5GB-ST1-Micro-Hard-Drive-CF-Type-II-ST650211CF-Compact-Flash-interf-/300861446655"
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0.230469); ">ST650211CF</a> as the HD</div>
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<div>The adator look like this : <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="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">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</a></div>
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Envoyé de mon iPad</div>
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Le 23 Feb 2013 à 18:14, "Tony KT9AC" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kt9ac@ameritech.net">kt9ac@ameritech.net</a>>
a écrit :<br>
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<div><span>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).</span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span>I guess I don't care what the distro is, I just have
three Thin Clients than I need to get ready to deploy.</span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span>Thanks,</span><br>
<span>Tony</span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span>On 2/21/2013 7:57 PM, Benjamin L. Naber wrote:</span><br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>Limey Linux will only work on a
few mini-ITX boards. I was lucky that I</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>got mine running on a Neoware
CA-22. However, the VIA version did not</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>work, so I used the i686
version. Booted up just fine.</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>I have noticed I've had plenty
trouble with the HP thin clients with</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>other Linux distros for embedded
machines. The older Neowares seem to</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>run much better, and faster. I'd
like to provide an answer for that, but</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>I honestly don't have a clue
why.</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>DO NOT TRY TO RUN ACID ON A
THUMB DRIVE!!!</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>Limey linux, when booted, loads
a compresses image to RAM, then</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>decompresses it. Limey Linux
runs from RAM. ACiD does not. If you try</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>it, not only will ACiD be slow
to boot on a thumb drive, the thumb drive</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>will die because of all the
read/write cycles that are meant for a</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>spinning hard drive. An allstar
user/node owner in Pennsylvania reported</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>the slow booting.</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>When dd'ing to flash drive, for
most cases you want to specify bs=16k at</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>the end of the line. You may
even try "gunzip -c <.img> | of=/dev/sdx</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>bs=16k". That is the line I used
on DamnSmallLinux console to burn the</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>Limey Linux image file to the
neoware's flash drive. There is zero need</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>to run cfdisk or any of that
mess before hand.</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>If I remember right, svcfg is
located in the /usr/bin, or the /usr/sbin</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>directory. If it is in one of
those two and you cannot do a svcfg from</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>the prompt, chances are a path
got screwed up somewhere. At the prompt,</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>you might be able to do
/usr/sbin/svcfg and that should work.</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>If you want to try running ACiD
on thin client, my best advice is to get</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>a USB hard drive, and run it
from there. You may have to play around</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>with the formating on the USB
hard drive for it to work correctly. Some</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>BIOSs do not like anything other
than VFAT or NTFS for booting purposes.</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>You may be able to make a double
partition and and have VFAT for</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>booting, and ext3 for anything
else. Have fun with grub or lilo to make</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>sure it boots from the correct
partition.</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>If you really want to get crazy
with it, use of of your Linux servers as</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>a PXE boot server, and have the
thin client load the Limey Linux from</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>there. Not sure how well save
would work though.....</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>~Benjamin, KB9LFZ</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>allstar node 28569</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 08:51
-0800, Tony KT9AC wrote:</span><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>Here are some notes from my
first attempt to get Limey up and running</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>on a T5710 Thin Client (1.2Ghz
Transmeta Efferon, 512MB flash chip</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>board (not drive) and 512MB
ram - PM705AA model).</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>It's not as easy as the Drupal
page would lead one to believe...Limey</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>is actually ArchLinux and not
CentOS like the ACID install is, so a</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>lot of expected stuff doesn't
work. I'm comfortable with Linux and</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>willing to work through this,
and perhaps a small group could write up</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>their experiences with this
tier of hardware on the Drupal site.</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>Notes:</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * Downloaded PenDrive
and Ubuntu server ISO to make a bootable</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> 4GB USB drive (this
allowed persistent storage of the cfimg</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> files under the
/cdrom/doc folder).</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * Booted into USB
Rescue and ran fdisk to delete two Windows</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> partitions off of
512MB flash.</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * Ran the "dd
if=cfimg-1.1.5 of=/dev/sdb" and wrote out 128MB</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> image just fine.</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * Rebooted 5710 and it
stuck at "USB Hub detected". Inserted</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> above USB drive and
it proceeded to a login prompt. It does</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> not see the URI at
this point. Tried the 1.1.4 and 1.1.5</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> version for VIA here.
Tried the i686-1.1.5 version and it</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> didn't even get this
far.</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * No "This is your
first time..." script ran like the Drupal</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> page says. No eth0
came up either.</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * Found out Limey is
actually "Archlinux" and found the commands</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> to get on the
internet.</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * Ran "ip link set
<ip> dev eth0 up" and "ip addr add</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> <ip/netmask/>
dev eth0"</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * Was able to ping my
default gateway and then</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> edit /etc/resolv.conf
to add "nameserver 8.8.8.8".</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * How does one save
changes back to the flash? The "svcfg"</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> doesn't seem to
exist...</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * Once on the network,
I switched to /usr/src and ran "getsrc"</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> which downloaded
Asterisk. I tried to do a "configure" but</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> that failed. Read the
README and did a usbradio_install but</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> that also failed.</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * This is a *really*
stripped down version of Linux that uses</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> 128MB of memory after
installed. I am comfortable around Linux</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> and CentOS and
realize Limey isn't a beginner's O/S, one that</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> I'm willing to work
through.</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> * I might buy an 8GB
USB drive and use that with a regular ACID</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> install to get more
functionality as a try of Ubuntu Server</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> didn't have enough
disk for an install (it did find all the</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> devices just fine
under Rescue mode since it's a newer</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> distro), or perhaps
CentOS 6.3 and roll my own compile of</span><br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span> Allstar.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Comments/suggestions are
welcome!</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Tony</span><br>
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