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dariuszw · Joined: 30 May 2011 Posts: 2

Good day,

I try to install Puppy 525 on HP t5565 thin client but I cannot as the internal ATA Flash Disc is not recognized by Puppy at all.

Thin client can be booted from USB CD or USB flash drive and everything works well except that there is no access to built in flash disc.

USB flash is seen as /dev/sda1 and not any other drive is available

I tried all options from Universal Puppy Installer but no one can find any device,

After trying all possible pmedia=... boot options only scsihd and scsicd allow to boot client from usb flash drive, all others give the error message: 'lupu_525.sfs not found'

If someone met the similar problem any help would be highly appreciated.

Thank you
Dariusz Werhun

bigpup · Posted: Tue 31 May 2011, 00:16 Post subject:

This being a thin client computer.
The internal flash disc is not being used as a standard internal drive would be.
It is only used to store what is needed to boot the computer and hook it to the network.
Any storage is done by the network server.
Puppy will not see it as an available drive for this reason.

dariuszw · Joined: 30 May 2011 Posts: 2

Thank you for the reply, but I'm curious about two things.

There is no such a problem with older model of HP thin client t5530,
Puppy recognizes internal ATA flash as /dev/sda and USB flash as /dev/sdb but the resources are not sufficient for Puppy to work smooth.

The t5565 comes with small linux 2.6.27 on board which recognizes internal ATA Flash as Attached SCSI disk [sda] but when I boot from USB internal flash is no longer available.

Anyway thank you again.
Dariusz Werhun