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Post #127,811 by jake123 11/27/03 1:44:28 AM Reply	Sweet I just checked out the new demo CD being produced for eComStation. Somehow, IBM was convinced to let us distribute a demo CD with only peer networking (ie- file and print) and printing disabled. So, here's what the new CD does. It will boot up, detect your nic driver, and install it on the fly during boot. There is a series of config screens that can be used to change the default selection if the autodetection routine happens to screw it up. After you boot, you can run a little proggy that will initialise the tcpip stack with basic parameters using dhcp or hand entry of IP address, netmask, nameservers, and gateway. At that point, you can fire up Moz and go browse the web. I fired it up in Virtual PC, and it just worked right off the bat. It only works in ram, and won't access hard drives at all, so you need a fair chunk of ram to make it go; it calls for a minimum of 128 MB. Pretty damn nice. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #127,836 by folkert 11/27/03 9:55:41 AM Reply	WHERE????? Spill the beans... ISO Image anywhere? -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey*
Post #127,868 by jake123 11/27/03 1:45:31 PM Reply	Not somewhere I can tell you yet. It's still in internal beta test. I'm going to be popping it up on my real hardware this afternoon after checking it out on the VPC 'hardware' last night. Here's a screenshot of it running in VPC, if you'd like to see the kind of thing we've got coming down the turnpike, though... [link\|http://consultron.ca/desktop.png\|http://consultron.ca/desktop.png] (302K) This is running from the CD and a ram disk. Performance on this machine in VPC is not so great, but then again my video card is not explicity supported by Snap so that's not a huge surprise... I'm basically running this box on VBE 3. Don't worry Greg, when it's ready to go out, I'll post it here and you can contact me with an address and I'll send one to you:) --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #127,872 by deSitter 11/27/03 1:54:46 PM Reply	Look! It's the pileated blue-breasted OS/2! The plumage is unmistakable! -drl
Post #127,882 by pwhysall 11/27/03 4:04:47 PM Reply	Will it be available for download? I'd like to dink with it in VMWare. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #127,883 by jake123 11/27/03 6:17:15 PM Reply	I dunno It's pretty large; the zip file is ~80 MB, and I don't doubt that SSI and Mensys would eye their bandwidth bills with some nervousness. I do know that they want to put it in computer magazines. For myself, once it's got the go-ahead, I won't mind making it available for selected folks to download from me, but that's still one or three iterations away yet... --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #127,900 by folkert 11/27/03 10:05:30 PM Reply	I'd be willing to host the D/L... Let me know. I really don't have a bandwidth cap... only limited by the line speed (1.5Mbps SDSL) Eager to see it. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey*
Post #127,911 by jake123 11/27/03 11:01:25 PM Reply	Well, let me talk to my people, then you can talk to your people, and then maybe we can do lunch;) --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

Sweet - (jake123) - (7) - Nov. 27, 2003, 01:44:28 AM EST

WHERE????? - (folkert) - (6) - Nov. 27, 2003, 09:55:41 AM EST

Not somewhere I can tell you - (jake123) - (5) - Nov. 27, 2003, 01:45:31 PM EST

Look! It's the pileated blue-breasted OS/2! - (deSitter) - Nov. 27, 2003, 01:54:46 PM EST

Will it be available for download? - (pwhysall) - (3) - Nov. 27, 2003, 04:04:47 PM EST

I dunno - (jake123) - (2) - Nov. 27, 2003, 06:17:15 PM EST

I'd be willing to host the D/L... - (folkert) - (1) - Nov. 27, 2003, 10:05:30 PM EST

Well, - (jake123) - Nov. 27, 2003, 11:01:25 PM EST

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