Am 23.01.2014 um 14:50 schrieb John Novack <[email protected]>:
> I use HP Thin Clients, and some time ago moved to either 512 or 1 Gig flash > drives > I don't use a CF card, but a replacement plug in from Transcend that is a > direct plug in replacement for any of the 55XX or 57XX Thin Clients > The cost is similar, as one has to find a CF adapter, make sure it fits ( > some need slight modification ) then a CF card. A Transcend flash comes in > close in cost, and always fits and works. > 256 flash is just too small for newer versions of AstLinux, though I believe > transcend still makes them. The cost difference is slight > I have some thin clients with only 128M of ram, and for light duty that works > well. Some of the older thin clients can't expand the ram. > > Astlinux is great, with constant improvements. I just hope "feature creep" > doesn't set in too deeply!! > > John Novack That exactly was the reason, why we stopped supporting the PCEngines WRAP and the Soekris net4801 one year ago beginning with AstLinux 1.1.0, because there are versions with only 128 MB RAM. If you need it, you can still build your own images and leave out all the packages you don't need. I do that as well, because I have a customer with a WRAP as router. Or use our http://www.build.astlinux.org page and strip down the image. > Darrick Hartman wrote: >> Your cf may be smaller than you think due to wear leveling. Get a bigger cf >> card. I can't even find ones that small and haven't been able to for some >> time. >> >> Several versions back, we moved to a 256mb install size, suggesting a >> minimum of 512mb cf cards. >> >> If you had a previous version on there, why not use the upgrade utility >> instead of flashing the whole install again? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Benjamin L. Naber [[email protected]] >> Received: Wednesday, 22 Jan 2014, 11:30PM >> To: AstLinux Users Mailing List [[email protected]] >> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] AstLinux 1.1.4 Released >> >> Just tried to install the newest version on a 256MB flash drive with the >> command: >> gunzip -c <lastestastlinuxversion>.img.gz | dd of=/dev/hda bs=64k >> >> didn't work, next line I saw stated I was out of space. >> >> So I tried the following even though I really think it was the same >> thing. I decompressed the image and copied to a flash drive with >> damnsmalllinux on it. >> >> dd if=<latestastlinuxversion>.img of=/dev/hda bs=64k >> >> same thing, next line stated I was out of space. >> >> cfdisk reports space available was 260.14MB. The decompressed astlinux >> image is 255MB. >> >> previous astlinux verions I was able to stick on the same 256MB flash >> drive with zero issues. >> >> what gives? >> >> ~Benjamin >> >> >> On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 21:42 +0000, Darrick Hartman wrote: >> > The AstLinux Team has released version 1.1.4. All current users are >> > encouraged to upgrade as this release addresses several security and >> > bugfix issues. >> > >> > AstLinux 1.1.4 adds: >> > >> > * An LDAP server to distribute directory information >> > * Network statistics using "darkstat" >> > * UPS equipment monitoring via NUT (replacing apcupsd) >> > * "ddclient" dynamic DNS client (an alternative to inadyn) >> > * Package upgrades providing security and bugfixes >> > >> > A full changelog can be viewed in the release pages: >> > >> > http://www.astlinux.org/release/114-asterisk-1170 >> > http://www.astlinux.org/release/114-asterisk-18250 >> > >> > New AstLinux Documentation Topics: >> > >> > Uninterruptible Power Supply Monitoring >> > http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_ups_monitoring >> > >> > Dialproxy >> > http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_dialproxy >> > >> > LDAP Server Configuration >> > http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt-ldap-server >> > >> > LDAP Client >> > http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_ldap_client >> > >> > --The AstLinux Team >> Michael http://www.mksolutions.info
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