See if you can into the BIOS. Might have to download the docs on the thing to figure out how. HP is pretty good about keeping docs on the web site for legacy gear so you should be able to find these without too much trouble.
Once in the BIOS, see if you can trick it into booting from a USB CDROM or maybe even a USB external hard drive. I suspect you will be able to do this. If you can boot from a CDROM, you might try booting "Ultimate BOOT CD". This will get you a Linux or DRDOS command line. At the Linux command line you should be able to get your hands on "fdisk" and "dd". If you get that far, it should be pretty easy to do whatever you want with it. I suspect they treat the flash like either a DOM or using an IDE channel. So the internal flash will probably be doing IDE hard drive emulation. It should show up as a device when you run "fdisk -l". You might also crack the box and take a look at its internals. You might be surprised to find it actually has an IDE interface that they just don't use. This could open other interesting possibilities. If you cant get it to boot from a USB CDROM, you should surely be able to get it to boot from a IDE CRDOM assuming it has the interface on the board. I have never been inside one of these but have into similar. Often it's a pretty generic mother board that they use in other configurations with an IDE drive. In the thin client version they just turn it off in BIOS or via jumpers. So its worth takeing a look. In a "worst case" scenario, I suppose I would go ahead and setup a PXE host for the darn thing to boot off. Would setup my Astlinux as a PXE image and then use the onboard FLASH as the Key Disk. G.Hendershot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Graves Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 6:44 PM To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash Subject: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux on HP Thin Client? I just came into posession of a few H-P T5700 thin clients. These are neat little boxes with 1 GHz CPU, 256 mb RAM and 256 mb flash. They currently boot XPe. Does anyone kow how I might make one run Astlinux? This is the first small system that could actually motivate me to move off a Net4801. The extra CPU could allow more use of G.729a calling. Michael -- Michael Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com Pixel Power Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] o713-861-4005 o800-905-6412 c713-201-1262 fwd 54245 _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
