I reciently bought an i-opener from e-bay that is just a striped down computer to look on the net with. well it doesnt have any PCI slots and no built in network so i am stuck using USB. It has 16mb flash that i could use to store any kind of information to boot from. To put a HD in these things will cost me $8 a cable + a laptop HD for about $80 for a 20gig that i dont need. I only plan on playing OOG files, looking on net, and editing text. Currently i have no USB network so if you only happen to have one working i can get that! i am currently looking at the D-Link 650, good, bad? If i cant use netboot or etherboot then any other ideas that i could use that 16mb flash memory for so that i can mount almost all but boot over NFS, this way i can always apt-get upgrade every night for each I-Opener (plan on using Debian). I will need to be able to access the local USB as my brother wants to use his archos MP3 player, and need access to local sound card. I was thinking of booting basic Linux in 16mb then chroot /mnt/NFSshare, but wouldent this make me loose USB and sound? thanks. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: nathan@lmistudios.homeip.net To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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