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Thanks for all the info, but I have already looked at all this stuff from IBM, and I still don't know how to do it. I did a frugal install to the CF card and made sure it would boot ok, then plugged it into the netvista machine, but could not figure out how to boot it. It kept tring to boot to a server somewhere on the network even though it showed that the compact card was plugged in. After it tried every boot methed it could and then would error out and say it could not boot. It would be so cool to get it to boot, but I'm not sure how.

Can you tell it to network boot from the loopback IP 127.0.0.1?

Brian
AwPhuch

does it have a floppy? if so, try the boot floppy!

Saidin,

There is no floppy drive, this thing is about the size of a medium sized book. I looked for some more information today, and found this:
http://csgrad74.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cdmica....TO.html

Everybody says that this thing will boot from compact flash, but I have yet to find out how to do it as all the options seem to be network boot. I'm going to try to find a picture of it to show everybody. it's cool.

Here are some pics on this baby, there are quite a few for sale on E-bay at any given time.

http://i8.ebayimg.com/02/i/02/c0/43/83_3.JPG
http://i3.ebayimg.com/02/i/02/c0/0a/9d_3.JPG
http://i5.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/c0/1a/16_3.JPG

The model on mine is 8363-EXX. What I'd really like to do is use it as a secure Linux terminal for all my online banking, e-baying, and other such transactions, a friend just fell victim to identity theft and found several accounts seriously short of cash, now there's a criminal investigation... MS doesn't really inspire any confidence in me security-wise anymore...

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