[olug] $27 IBM thin clients (model#8361-110)

[Sean Edwards]

Think "Embedded Linux".

Coyote Linux (based on the Linux Router Project) does
this with a floppy:  it boots from the floppy, then
uncompresses the kernel and other necessary system
elements into a RAM drive (RAM set aside for holding a
file system).

What I was gettintg at was burining the kernel,
utilities and files ystem, etc., on a bootprom, not
just the bootp/.dhcp/tftp.  The process I envisioned
was similar to Coyote, but from a boot prom not a
floppy.

--- Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> Sean Edwards wrote:
> > If there is an ethernet card of some itereation in
> > there, check for a bootprom socket.
> 
> It's simpler than that.  It's NOT a PC, it's a
> (hopefully!) diskless 
> standards-compliant computer with a PowerPC 603e
> processor.  Chances are 
> the firmware already understands BOOTP (similar to
> DHCP) and TFTP.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us


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