<div dir="ltr">That will be a tough one as the NIC drivers must be loaded through the pcmcia dirvers. I don't know of any tiny image floppies that support pcmcia off the top of my head. But, hey! It's all open source so it can be assembled! Basically a kernel with the correct modules compiled in (a tad smaller than loadable modules) get substituted for a kernel image on a boot floppy. The trick is squeezing it all down to be the same size of smaller than the original.<br>
<br>Hmm. More to that is needed... Need to have nfsroot compiled in as well as a custom rc.sysinit to actually mount the remote / and then continue loading things and services from there. It would probably work to canabalize the structure of the LTSP files.<br>
<br>The first thing to try is a floppy boot, external CD installation with the NIC installed to see if an insaller has drivers for the NIC. The older PCMCIA stuff was as notoriously linux-driverless as wireless NICs are now. It used to be that a linux admin fu factor was whether they could make the pcmcia card _work_ on their Linux laptop :)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Daniel Howard <<a href="mailto:dhhoward@comcast.net">dhhoward@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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A tiny kernel image with networking and a NFS mounted / from a server would make that feeble thing a thin client but you'll need a pccard NIC.<br>
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Given that I got the Ambicom PCMCIA Ethernet card to work, I'd love to use this as a thin client. Any ideas where I could grab a floppy image that I could try? Daniel<br>
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