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bump Anyone made any progress with making these into an RDP client? My unit is now dedicated to serving my mp3 collection, but I'm thinking of buying a couple more just to dink around with. Would really like to try to get it to boot a more recent version of linux from the CF card.

Follow the first three steps of the fourth post here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=181547&sid=19d7cd00f7be63b64337047f81a03b61 to get a CompactFlash card booting into FreeDOS with networking and mouse support on the 5140, then maybe this DOSRDP thing will work (Google...

Which I don't have on my home PC, where the hacking of this device is being done... Some good info on the FreeNAS forums regarding booting CF's. Apparently, at least for current versions of Linux/FreeBSD, only certain CF's that are DMA enabled will boot. They also point out IDE DOMs, which...

Here's an rdesktop client for BL3: http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/baslinux/ I can't test it, since I don't have an RDP server... BTW, I had to remove the "rw" from the BL3 boot.bat to get it to boot, then added: mount -o remount,rw /dev/loop0 right after the PATH statement...

I've had one of these for a few weeks (excellent seller, got it the day after ordering). I've had the same experience trying to get recent Linux distros to load. It will run BasicLinux 3 quite nicely, however. BL3 is based on Slackware 4. It boots from FreeDOS, then uses a linux loader...