brianbarr wrote: > My favored platform for Astlinux is the small, cheap, compact, quiet > and low power T5700 series of x86 based thin client boxes that can be > had for <$100 on ebay. > I have configured quite a few of the T5xxx series myself. > I am having major problems, however in installing 0.6 on these machines. > > As you may know, these things have a standard PC BIOS that can be set > to boot off of the internal 44 pin IDE interface that is populated > with a DOM flash device or external USB. > > You can also connect any IDE device you wish to the internal 44 pin > IDE interface with an appropriate cable. I have managed to locate a few adapters that plug directly onto the motherboard and hold a CF card, though the last ones I got from Hong King do NOT work, and I have had little time to investigate. > A PCI expansion housing is available to house a zaptel TDM card. Seems recently the ONLY expansion kits available are for the 5720. The earlier case style 5700 and 5710, as well as the 5500 series are extinct now. > I mod the device with a molex connector soldered to the main +12V PSU > feed to power the TDM card. Same here. Have been unable to find a source of +12VDC that is switched, though since the unit remains powered most of the time that is a minor issue. There are also cheap converters available on eBay that will power from 48VDC and 24VDC quite nicely. Many of these are sold missing the power supply, and one wonders where they are all hiding!!
> The my test T5700 has 256MB of ram and the DOM is also 256MB. The USB > ports are 1.1 (slow). > > Astlinux 0.4.8 refuses to finish booting off the USB port on either a > USB stick flashed with the .img version or an external CD-ROM and the > .iso version. Same here!! > > Sooo to get the software installed I boot from a USB stick flashed > with Damm Small Linux and dd the .img version to the internal DOM and > off I go, no issues. > I used the iso version of DSL, booting with dsl 2 vga=normal. I can then wipe any existing partition on the CF card, but afterwards use dd as you have. > Which leads me to 0.6..... > > Same drill for 0.6, but no joy on booting. The boot fails in LINUXRC > with "AstLinux medium not found." just before it is to drop into the > "Astlive" function and finish things up. I never bothered trying again. I use DSL, install runnix, then either the 0.5 or 0.6 tar file and all is well. I am unable to use the img version of the 0.6-geni586 Installing runnix then the tar file works fine though. Also keep in mind that there are what seems to be major differences between the 5700, 5710 and more obviously the 5720. Once I build a working CF card, I can transfer between the 5510,5520, 5710 and 5720 with no errors though. Another curiosity I have recently run across is in the last distributed 0.5 build, when loading asterisk, the app_macro.so application fails to load when doing an auto load. Adding a load statement in the modules.conf fixes that. John Novack -- Dog is my co-pilot ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
