I recently purchased a maxspeed 5200 thinclient. Its specs are: 300mhz geode proc. 64MB RAM WinCE
It has a 44pin IDE controller (the kind for a laptop, also might have 2) CF Card reader 2 usb ports ps/2 ports parallel 2 serial The RAM is upgradable (pc100 sdram only, and some sticks are too tall). Basically, its a small pc, with 43 watt power consumption, very similar to a soekris board. I bought it for $20. Soekris boards run $200+ for something similar (but they are slightly smaller). So now the question. How would I get linux onto this thing? I have already tried installing linux to a laptop hard drive,and moving it to the thinclient, but that didn't work ( I don't know what the bios sees the drive as, so I just keep getting a grub error). I am sure I would get the same problem if I tried to use a cfcard. Its not usb bootable. I don't have any boot options in fact, if a hard drive is detected, it boots from that, if not, it boots wince, which i know nothing about. There is very little public information about this kit. Any ideas, other than some ide converters, an extra power supply, and a cdrom drive? wow, this is along post :( thanks in advance, mat
