Hi, thanks for the info. I don't have this thing here yet, just recently ordered it, so I'm not sure exactly what I'll be getting. I'm unsure if it's an official diskless or if the guy sold off the hard drive separately. It supposedly has the StrongARM cpu.
I have bootp and nfs capability here, but I would like to make this guy a standalone unit. This should make a swell addition to my GNU Zoo. - Doug Leonard Sitongia wrote: >On Saturday 09 March 2002 09:15 pm, you wrote: > >>I have just purchased what appears to be a diskless Netwinder >>with 64MB RAM. I would like to install a hard drive into this >>thing and get Debian/ARM running on it. >> >>Does it just take a "standard" 70mm / 19mm notebook ATA >>44pin IDE drive? >> >Yes, although the mounting is a bit odd, with apparently an older >spacing of the screws. So, when I upgraded my 800MB disk >to a 10GB one, I was only able to secure two screws. > Typical. My PII has a lot of its hardware secured with zip ties. >>I figure that I will need to get a drive, cable, and possibly >>a very tiny fan. Has anybody done this before? >> >It doesn't have fan? Bummer. Sorry, but I haven't worked on >an (official, I gather?) diskless Netwinder. > >Have fun. Does it have the StrongARM or the Curusoe >processor? > A Crusoe would be really nifty, but those are beyond my price range right now. I like to get the slightly older yet still cool machines to play with. I shudder to think what the original price tag on the hp9000 was, but I'm getting a lot of good usage out of what was probably corporate scrap. _______________________________________________ http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/armlinux/mailinglists.php Please visit the above addresses for information on this list.
