Re: NetBSD on IBM NetStation 1000

[Rui-Tao Dong <rdong%newport.com@localhost>]

>>>>> "mldecker" == Mark Decker <mldecker%bigfoot.com@localhost> writes:

 mldecker> There have been a couple of posts within the last month
 mldecker> concerning NetBSD on the IBM NetworkStation model 1000.  I
 mldecker> have one of the devices (603EV@200Mhz, 64MB RAM).  While
 mldecker> reading the NC-HOWTO, there was a link to an IBM website
 mldecker> that provided the IBM Thin Client Manager (there was no
 mldecker> charge for this product, although I did have to register to
 mldecker> download) Within this software is a kernel image for the
 mldecker> IBM thin client model 1000 (8362-A52).  I went ahead and
 mldecker> downloaded the software, installed it on a WINNT server,
 mldecker> and was able to boot my thin client from the NT Server.
 mldecker> The operating system that is loaded seems to be a build of
 mldecker> NetBSD 1.4 specifically for this network computer.  'uname
 mldecker> -a' returns the following:

 mldecker> NetBSD 1.4-NCOS NetBSD 1.4-NCOS (CLIENT.NS1K) #0: Tue Dec
 mldecker> 19 14:16:52 MST 2000
 mldecker> 
buildmaster@buildns1k:/buildmaster/modules/NCOS/build-history/build-3.0.beta-200012191201/NCOS/os-src/sys/arch/ns1k/compile/CLIENT.NS1K
 mldecker> ns1k

Hi Mark,

How did you get a shell prompt to run uname on that thing?

Where do I find Linux for it?

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Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} <ruitao%home.com@localhost>, Mission Viejo, California