Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:21:50 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: chip@eboai.org Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Message-ID: <200003140321.UAA41352@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:59:22 EST." <20000313205922.A37374@hindenburg.eboai.org> References: <20000313205922.A37374@hindenburg.eboai.org> <20000313182607.A36079@hindenburg.eboai.org> <200003132339.QAA40291@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20000313205922.A37374@hindenburg.eboai.org> Chip Marshall writes: : On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 04:39:17PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: : > You'll need some way to program the CF that sits in the slave IDE slot : > of the primary IDE bus on the mobo. One can do this with a 2.5" IDE : > drive with a custom cable. (you have to swap 1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc: : : I read on one of the sites that you can get it to give you a root : shell during the boot sequence, and from that you can dial up your ISP : of choice and grab an image that you can copy over the flash. But, you : need to reboot it before QNX has a chance to update the flash. Just hit Ctrl+Shift+Escape to get into the BIOS. I personally plan to make the IDE cable and mounting bracket and turn the 1.2G hard drive I purchased for my Libretto into something useful again. :-) : > And you'll need to use a USB Ethernet to talk to the network. : : That shouldn't be a problem, looks like 4.0 has support for all sorts : of USB Ether devices :) Yup. That's why I didn't mention Parallel port Ethernet :-) : > And you'll have to find one. There are none to be had in the Denver : > area, for example. :-( : : A friend of mine is checking to see if you can still order them at : Circuit City... I just got back from the one in Westminster CO. The one in Boulder was lame enough to want me to prepay the whole thing, while the one in Westminster charged me only 20% down, completely refundable to hold one. I was told two weeks or so. I'm actually getting mine for my wife to use as a "laptop" machine. She needs a unit she can toss into a bag and drive to remote points and then plug something into it. The USB is saving my butt since it means that CDROM, ZIP drive, printers, networking and scanners are all available to her at least at home. I'm ashamed to say that I'll be putting Win98 on mine, but not before playing around with FreeBSD. I do have a mkflash program that does make installs in a bunch of places in the tree that fits in about 12MB. However, that's all just the mondane programs, doesn't even include X. Oh well, it is optimized for my employer's semi-embedded systems which are on 32MB DOC2k or 48 or 64MB CF. Love the CF, dislike the DOCs, too many failed on us. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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