I am not sure what your problem might be, but I have successfully used
Runnix on HP Thin Clients with a selection of sizes of CF disks
HP 500 series - T55xx T57xx
I first replace the flash memory with an adapter that will accept a CF
disk. I have located a small number of adapter cards that plug directly
in place, but more available ones with a short flex cable and adapter
card can also work
Install either a 512, 1 gig or 2 gig CF card ( or what have you )
O boot the Thin Client from a USB CDROM using DSL Linux live CD. The
Astlinux live CD has a problem booting in this configuration, as it gets
impatient with the slow drive and errors out saying it can't read the
drive part way through the boot process.
When the DSL live CD comes up, boot with:
dsl 2 vga=normal ( if your eyes can't take the small characters ), or
dsl 2 ssh vga=normal if you want ssh access.
Once it boots you will need to set a password to have ssh access.
Then run cfdisk to remove any partition on the CF card. Leave with no
partitions.
With a pen drive mounted in another USB slot, I download from
djhsolutions.astlinux
the necessary files, so I can do multiple installs if need be.
Then gunzip -c runnix.img.gz | dd of=dev/hda bs=16k
I sometimes get error messages from the smaller CF cards, some even from
1 Gig cards, but they always work!
Once it is finished, run cfdisk again and set up the necessary linux
partition(s) on the remainder of the card. You should see the 128 meg
partition this time around.
Mount the boot partition with:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
cp -R /mnt/sda<wherever your astlinux files are> /mnt/hda1/os
Now you can reboot
All should go well ( They do for me ) and you can run genunion to create
the union filesystem
follow the instructions to mount the ro file system, edit the run.conf
file, if necessary.
I understand the very latest are set up for auto, so that may not be
necessary.
Reboot and use it.
This works for me, your mileage may vary.
Now all you REAL Linux gurus can pick my procedure apart!!
John Novack
ivan kolev wrote:
Thanks for the replies,
unfortunately, the result from using physdiskwrite under Win is the same,
something is wrong with runnix I guess, but I can't find the source
code to investigate. I am really running out of options, very, very
frustrating...
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