Neoware Thinclients and Thinstation

[selfprodigy]

I've been playing around with thinstation with great success recently. I have a side project im working on and i thought maybe you guys could help.

I have about 150 HP Neoware Thinclients. They clock in at a whopping 233mhz with 256 megs of ram and the worst onboard video card on the planet.  

Well I dont know if any of you guys are familiar with these things or not but they dont contain hard drives. They contain chips that need to be flashed.

So what i did was install syslinux on a thumb drive and i put the kiosk version of thinstation 2.2.2 on it with the drivers i needed. Success! I got it to boot, and load. There is only one problem. It runs slower than windows xp embedded. Which doesnt make a whole lotta sense to me but whatever.  

I'm starting to think that it could be the fact that it isn't installed on the device. Does anyone have any idea how i would even start this little project.

[Mike Eriksen-2]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM, selfprodigy <selfprodigy@...> wrote:

>
> I've been playing around with thinstation with great success recently. I have
> a side project im working on and i thought maybe you guys could help.
>
> I have about 150 HP Neoware Thinclients. They clock in at a whopping 233mhz
> with 256 megs of ram and the worst onboard video card on the planet.
>
> Well I dont know if any of you guys are familiar with these things or not
> but they dont contain hard drives. They contain chips that need to be
> flashed.
>
> So what i did was install syslinux on a thumb drive and i put the kiosk
> version of thinstation 2.2.2 on it with the drivers i needed. Success! I got
> it to boot, and load. There is only one problem. It runs slower than windows
> xp embedded. Which doesnt make a whole lotta sense to me but whatever.
>
> I'm starting to think that it could be the fact that it isn't installed on
> the device. Does anyone have any idea how i would even start this little
> project.

No, TS is running off a RAM disk and will beat any type of disk any day.

Mike

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[paratwa]

selfprodigy wrote:

I have about 150 HP Neoware Thinclients. They clock in at a whopping 233mhz with 256 megs of ram and the worst onboard video card on the planet.  

Well I dont know if any of you guys are familiar with these things or not but they dont contain hard drives. They contain chips that need to be flashed.

So what i did was install syslinux on a thumb drive and i put the kiosk version of thinstation 2.2.2 on it with the drivers i needed. Success! I got it to boot, and load. There is only one problem. It runs slower than windows xp embedded. Which doesnt make a whole lotta sense to me but whatever.

233Mhz CPU with 256MB of RAM could do quite a bit.  I have a couple HP t5135 thin clients with 400Mhz CPUs/128MB RAM in them.  My users can't tell the difference between the t5135s and the Dell P4 2.4GHz machines when both are running Thinstation and Rdesktop.

What specific applications are you running on your Neoware units?  What are you expectations?

As to your booting, if you're in a stable LAN environment I'd recommend network booting (PXE or Etherboot).  Reflashing 150 thin clients or managing flash updates isn't my idea of fun. ;)   Network booting lets you store your "disk image" on a TFTP server and your thin client downloads and boots off of it at power on.  

Evan List