[LUNI] Embeded Red Hat or other Linux?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 10:29 -0500, Scott Lockwood wrote:
> Anyone here get these new WYSE terminal's working with Linux? I'm
> talking about the WYSE winterm V50 and S50 models. We want to use them
> (or something like them) in place of our fleet of (approx. 400ish) Dell
> E310/3100 machines. We're wanting to run Linux, Xorg, and FireFox on
> them. We've tried Debian, Ubuntu, DSL, and Slackware without much luck.
> We'd like to not have to custom roll our own kernel, but I suspect it
> may well come to that. The problem so far seems to be that the SCSI
> module doesn't load in time for the flash to be mounted as root. I'm
> pretty sure that Red Hat had some sort of nifty embeded projects going,
> but I can't find what I need (Tom? You out there? :-D) on their site.
> Puppy Linux has also been suggested. We're not tied to using these WYSE
> box's either, if you know if a GOOD little terminal that's like less
> than $350, let me know.

Red Hat does do embedded work, but on a contract basis only.

However, it seems like all you need is a Linux distro that is initrd
driven, Fedora/RHEL are, and they preload SCSI modules before root is
mounted. You should also be able to specify extra modules (if any
non-SCSI items need to be preloaded) with the mkinitrd command (again,
on Fedora/RHEL for sure).

~spot