Thin Client Converter

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Ok, I've got really a lot of computers standing around here but from time to time I just miss another machine. Neato Software. As I don't want to spend money for an energy wasting high end machine, just to do some minor jobs, surf the web or read my mails I thought of an alternative. So I was very happy when I got a box with a bunch of thinclients from a liquidation.

First I wanted to run them with a terminal server, but as I had no free machine (.) I thought it would be great just to convert some of them to normal desktop machines. A thinclient is a normal computer, ok without a high end graphic card, it's got no DVD-/CD-ROM drive, but it's still a common computer. And a common computer has to boot an operating system to work, maybe via harddisk, maybe via floppy disk, cd drive, usb drive or whatever. Ok, as we see, there's no DVD/CD-ROM and I don't want to buy or use an external DVD/CD drive. No floppy disk drive (even if there would be one, it'd be hard to boot a complete operating system with a gui, browser, mail client, text processing software and other stuff from it. But it's got 4 USB ports. No, I don't want to boot from an external HDD or an USB pen drive.

But this device has to boot from something, so it's able to connect to a terminal server. There must be something inside.

According to one of my t-shirts with the slogan 'I void warranties', I've got no problem to open cases and devices. I did this as a kid and it was funny almost every time;-) So just grab a screw driver that fits and remove the screws. A few seconds later you can see the guts of the thinclient. No unknown parts inside if you ever opened a regular computer. Just a plain mainbord, some cables, a RAM module, a CPU (passive cooled, great, no noise!!!) and.

A flash memory card with amazing 128 MB. As we can't find a harddrive this thing seems to boot from the compact flash card. So we just have to get our operating system on this.

The lazy ones can buy a module from the manufacturer of these machines. But spending 40 bucks for a pretty lame linux with almost no features? We are hackers, if a manufacturer can do this, we can do this even better. All we've got to do is to erase the 128 MB card in our card reader and get a new operating system on it. So remove the card (turn off the thinclient, if it's still running.) and put it into your card reader in your Linux or Windows PC. If your're lucky you can format it without any problems. In my case Murphy's law hit me once again and my computer didn't let me format the card.