Has anyone done any hacking of the ThinkNIC (http://www.thinknic.com/)? The thinkNIC is a cheap (~$200 US) internet computer with a 200mhz proc and 64 megs ram. It has no HD and boots from a laptop style cdrom drive. It runs a hacked linux dist with X and netscape. The few configurations are done through scripts and Netscape and then stored in flash memory. I've been playing with it a little bit. And it appears to have one IDE channel that the cdrom is on. There is an interface board between the MB and cdrom on this connection that sets master/slave for the cdrom. It appears to set it to slave though. I will be trying to atach an HD soon with the linux dist from the cdrom for hacking purposes. The system also uses one pc100 dimm ram board. I mounted the cdrom and started going over the linux dist. It appears to boot up, create a ram drive, default to run level 4, and then runs a hacked version of rc.sysinit (no other rc scripts). X is started and the only thing that comes up in X is netscape (no gui menu). X is set to 800x600 but the X config file has modelines for 1024x768 also. It is just set so you can't swith it on the fly. Anyone have any more info that I can have before I hack into it deeper? Anyone have any advice on setting up a bootable linux dist that is on cdrom on an HD? Anyone know what the hell a boot.cat files does since all it is a hand full of bytes (around 6) of non 00 hex value in a file of a bunch of 00 hex bytes? I tried dissasembling the boot.cat file with no luck. Net searches have turned up nothin on what it does. All I know is that it and an .img are required to make an ISO image to burn. Any info is appreciated. /-------------------------------------\ | Robert Wohleb | | | | System Administrator | | Parafoil Software | | | || | FAX: (520)752-7373 | \-------------------------------------/ -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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