Booting linux on a Compaq T1000.

Feb 27, 2005 0 Replies

Hi :).



Compaq T1000 are thin clients, equipped with Windows CE. I have an access to many of those, and I do linux xterminal networks setup. So I thought that putting linux on this would be nice. The most flexible way would be to put just a network bootloader on it, and boot from tftp (kernel) and nfs (filesystem).



AFAIK flash is formatted with 'true flash filesystem'. I have some firmware images. Is there an open source software which can modify those? This way I could put a .com etherboot file on it and just run it.


Or could I just put another boot block in the beginning of a flash image ?



AFAIK TFFS is just a kind of block remapper, not a real filesystem.



Funny thing is that linux on t1500 (another thin client from compaq) is booted using some wince methods :).


Do you have any suggestions?


bye, Filip


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