Just thought I'd report back - I have now sucessfully managed to install to my thin client.
I already had a bootable USB pen flashed with TRK (Trinity Rescue Kit) - a Linux recovery distro, so I booted the thin client with this. I then copied the astlinux generic image from my primary Linux desktop using sftp onto the thin client. Then it was a matter of deleting all partitions on the onboard flash Dom using fdisk before DD'ing the image onto it. This worked first time, the astlinux installer then ran without a hitch. Thanks for your help John, Regards Mitch Sent from my iPhone On 13 Jul 2010, at 22:06, John Novack <[email protected]> wrote: > Mitchell Dawson wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am having problems booting my HP T5700 thin client from a usb >> stick. >> The install seems to start ok but stops with "astlinux medium not >> found" >> >> I have seen similar threads on the forum of earlier versions that >> dont seem to have been resolved, is this a common problem with this >> hardware? >> >> The machine has 1ghz cpu, 1gig flash Dom onboard and 512 ram - >> >> Thanks >> >> Mitch > Are you able to boot ANYTHING from USB?? > > I have installed AstLinux on quite a few HP thin clients, from the > 5520,5530, 5700,5710 and 5720, but have not yet made an AstLinux USB > boot device, so I can't be of much help. > > I boot the machine from a USB with DSL ( Damn Small Linux ) that > also has the img file stored on it, and use dd to install on the > internal flash module. > Transcend makes 512, 1G and larger flash that fit in place of the > originals. ( though I am uncertain if these machines will go beyond > 2 Gig ) > After booting and using dd to write the img file to the flash, > reboot and change the bios to boot from the internal, then finish > off with the very nice web interface. > almost simple enough a cave man could do it!! > the 5700 series will even handle a single T1 card nicely, assuming > one can find the expansion parts! > > John Novack > > -- > > Dog is my Co-pilot > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
