I'm familiar with the EPIA motherboards, well the MII one anyway. It runs around $167, yet one obviously doesn't really need a pc card slot. Personally if I'm going to get to those expenses one almost might as well go Pundit or Shuttle cube variation I guess. Actually I should look at the variations on the shuttle cubes that are out now...
Basically I was looking for a solution in a microATX motherboard that had everything quite cheap. I just bought a refurbished microATX with sempron 2200 and heat sink for $68.80 from newegg. It hasn't arrive yet, but if it's integrated video had s-video it would be perfect. (Of course they are sold out of those, and I've no idea of the quality since it is refurbished.) I just thought that perhaps there was an ultra cheap all in one motherboard solution that basically needed a stick of ram and a remote control. It is not really an unreasonable combination, but getting it all to work in Linux might be another matter. If anyone does't know about them, they might take a look at logicsupply.com . They have ide flash memory modules that plug directly into an IDE connector starting at $51 dollars for a 256MB version. Of course if you don't know how to build a Linux system so it never mounts a partition rw, other than during development, then I can't really recommend it. (Flash memory devices have a finite number of read write cycles.) The basic idea is to create a compressed squashfs image and then use the union file system to overlay a ramdrive so the system is happy. If you have a few files you need to edit every now and then put them on a separate partition and create symbolic links to them before creating the compressed image. That way you can temporarily mount the partition read write and edit those files. For this to work with myth I suspect you would need a 512MB CF module and at least 512MB of ram since you don't have any disk swap.. I'm trying to think of the advantage of such a system over nfs and the only obvious reason would be for portable devices that use wireless or in cases where NFS booting is impossible. Hard drives are far easier and can be very quiet... (I'm assuming the original reason for avoiding a hard drive was for reasons of noise.) On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 01:24 -0700, Todd Duffin wrote: > I am running an EPIA M1000 and am very happy with it. It is an ITX form > factor. Has everything you are talking about. VGA, SVideo out, Analog > audio out (and digital out too!), LAN, USB, Firewire, IR, 1000mhz CPU...the >
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