At 12:30 AM 9/22/2001 -0500, Mark Decker wrote:
>There have been a couple of posts within the last month concerning NetBSD on
>the IBM NetworkStation model 1000.  I have one of the devices (603EV@200Mhz,
>64MB RAM).  While reading the NC-HOWTO, there was a link to an IBM website
>that provided the IBM Thin Client Manager (there was no charge for this
>product, although I did have to register to download)  Within this software
>is a kernel image for the IBM thin client model 1000 (8362-A52).  I went
>ahead and downloaded the software, installed it on a WINNT server, and was
>able to boot my thin client from the NT Server.  The operating system that is
>loaded seems to be a build of NetBSD 1.4 specifically for this network
>computer.  'uname -a' returns the following:
>
>NetBSD  1.4-NCOS NetBSD 1.4-NCOS  (CLIENT.NS1K) #0: Tue Dec 19 14:16:52 MST
>2000
>buildmaster@buildns1k:/buildmaster/modules/NCOS/build-history/build-3.0.beta-200012191201/NCOS/os-src/sys/arch/ns1k/compile/CLIENT.NS1K 
>
>ns1k
>
>It also seems that the Linux OS for this device is a stripped-down version:
>only the functions and applications necessary to connect to a server and do
>work are provided.  It is defintely not a full linux install.

There's Linux for it?  Are the sources available (to use as inspiration)?

Cool.  Can you send the output of dmesg?

A tcpdump of the traffic as it boots would be real useful (bootp, tftp).
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