Making RDP kiosk/clients?

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Well, I seemingly cannot get anything linux to load.

IPCop CF install initial screen comes up, but after the decompress it freezes

Thinstation initial decompress loads, then freezes and restarts

I made a MSDos bootable CF Card and that worked fine, tried running Thinstation from that and it froze on the linux decompress

Knoppix freezes on the linux decompress

DOSRDP I cannot find the right network packet driver for, so it starts to load then barks about incorrect NIC and stops

any other ideas?
 
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. I've been able to get it connected to the internet, and even had Opera running, albeit rather slowly. See a chronicle of my progress here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=181547&sid=19d7cd00f7be63b64337047f81a03b61

I wound up installing a 2.5" HDD in the thing, and run FreeNAS on it. It's a nice NAS for serving mp3's (using builtin MediaTomb), and as a network share for my Windows PC and Puppy Linux laptop. Couldn't get FreeNAS to boot fully from a CF drive.

I would also like to crack open the BIOS, but no key combo I've tried will let me in.

I have a mini-pci Atheros-chip wifi card on order, hope to replace the modem with it and add wireless capability, which FreeNAS supports.

Oh, I was able to get the LAN running under FreeDOS using the packet driver available on NatSemi's site. Might work for DOSRDP...
 
swatbat said:
XP Pro and Vista Business/Ultimate have it built in. You just have to turn on remote desktop.
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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 connect right to the motherboard's IDE connector, will work, e.g.

http://www.memory.com/IDE-Flash-Modules.asp
 
I'd like to get the 5140's I got setup to do only RDP, but I don't know a damn thing about linux.
 
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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.
 
I haven't had any time to look at it any closer yet.
 
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