Mitchell Dawson wrote: > Just thought I'd report back - I have now sucessfully managed to > install to my thin client. > GREAT! > 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. > ALWO - Any Linux will do!! I assume you copied to the pen drive? Or does TRK create a RAM drive large enough to hold the img? That might be useful to know for someone else in a similar fix. > Then it was a matter of deleting all partitions on the onboard flash > Dom using fdisk before DD'ing the image onto it. > From memory, I don't believe I had to delete partitions, but it does no harm. When dd writes the img file, I believe it rewrites the partition information as well. > This worked first time, the astlinux installer then ran without a hitch. >
> Thanks for your help John, > YW JN 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 >> > -- 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].
