See the foolproof method I have used in my previous post.
Seems I remember some issue with either creating a USB bootable stick or
installing from same
But then, I am not much on Linux
John Novack
Adrian Hodgson wrote:
Hi Lonnie;
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have tried the latest version and it fails hangs around something about the
usb disck I have installed with the image. It starts then just hangs.
The old machines do not have PAE etc and I thought were i386 only.
the old web pages seem to point to versions that are no loonger on the astlinux
web pages.
I will try option 2 next and see where it gets me.
Just a thought that perhaps I am doing in wrong, let me explain.
I download the .img from the web.
I use dd if=astlinux-xxxxxxx.img of=sdb to write the imagae file to an old 1
gig usb drive.
Plug it in to the T5700, boot it up and it boots off the usb drive, would it
then install on to flash or do I need to proceed another way?
Cheers
Adrian
On Saturday 17 May 2014 20:44:53 Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> The latest AstLinux 1.1.6 works fine with 512 MB of RAM.
>
> By default the FAT16 disk partition is 256 MB (which holds the run images)
> and the remaining part of your flash drive is for the ext2 Linux
> filesystem. That is tight for 1 GB flash and very tight for 512 MB flash,
> but still possible.
>
> So you have several options...
>
> 1) Download the latest 1.1.6 image, either "Generic i586" or "Generic
> i586-Serial" (VGA or Serial console) and give it a go.
>
> 2) Use the build engine, http://build.astlinux.org/ and build a 1.1.6 image
> with FAT16 Partition: 128 MB and uncheck SMP Kernel:, and disable any
> other items you don't use. This will match your hardware better.
>
> 3) Using a VM, build your own custom images:
> http://doc.astlinux.org/devdoc:documentation.
>
> I'd suggest trying #1 first to make sure the the flash drive and the NIC is
> recognized by our kernel, and then optimize (hopefully) from there if
> desired. In theory a 512 MB flash drive will still be enough to work with
> #1.
>
> Lonnie
>
> On May 17, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Adrian Hodgson wrote:
> > I know that many years ago astlinux was installed on a HP thin client the
> > T5700.
> >
> > I have a few left over previously used with an alarm project with puppy
> > iso.
> >
> > I would just like to play with astlinux and try to get a couple of sip
> > phones working home use, the T5700 I have have 512 Meg ram and 1 Gig
> > flask, another has 512 Meg flash.
> >
> > What version of astlinux would work on these elderly devices?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Adrian
>
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