DSL on New Tiny PC - ebox-2300 / TU-40 / ewayco.co

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Topic: DSL on New Tiny PC - ebox-2300 / TU-40 / ewayco.co
started by: thugwold

Posted by thugwold on Mar. 24 2007,18:18

Has anyone had any luck with getting DSL running on this tiny desktop machine?

It has an IDE-Based CF Card interface.

I have tried the USB Hard Disk install and could not get the machine to boot.

Puppy Linux currently supports its, but Damn Small is much more polished and is the Linux of my choice.

Links:
< http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/details.html >
< http://www.wdlsystems.com/ebox/ebox.shtml >
< http://www.ewayco.com/51-embe....em.html >

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Mar. 24 2007,21:37

If it's IDE based, I don't think you should be using the usb scripts at all.

Using a regular frugal installation (or other hd-install types) should work.

Posted by thugwold on Mar. 25 2007,01:37

Sorry for not being clear.

The target machine (ebox-2300) has a compact flash slot that is treated as an IDE hard drive.

I need to use my main machine which has a USB based compact flash reader / writer to "burn" the compact flash card so that I can pull it out and stick it into the ebox-2300.

I can load up DSL with my main machine but the ebox-2300 won't boot.

It sees the card, but the boot loader is not configured correctly. I just get a black screen.

Posted by hs7sv on Mar. 25 2007,02:07

USB script does not work on CF IDE. You may use USB Pendrive and USB script on another PC, then use that Pendrive for booting on the Tiny Machine and make Frugal HDD Installation to CF IDE as hda1. Good luck

Posted by roberts on Mar. 25 2007,04:50

The ebox series was discussed awhile ago. See this < thread. >

Posted by manishsadh on Mar. 30 2007,05:27

Hi,

i am using the microclient jr from norhtec which is the same as ebox 2300 pc. after booting from usb with dsl and doing a frugal install to the cf IDE i coudn't get all the files needed for booting. so i had to manually boot up in text mode from the usb(by using boot option "dsl 2"). then copy the minirt24 and linux24 files manually from the usb to the hda1 partition (CF IDE). and finally i had to reinstall grub bootloader on the IDE. this is how it worked for me.

The key is to install a grub bootloader on the cf ide and store all the files needed to boot. then of course you can write bootoptions into the grubmenu.lst to persist them.

cheers.