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I have just taken delivery of the LM860A product.  This is my first ever
new computer, as I have had a policy of assembling systems from 5 year old
components because of cost and experience base considerations.

http://www.aeste.net/products/gaea.html#Gaea

My response after exploring it the first day was "I'm quite smug."

I have connected an external IDE drive (with the case open) and run Win98
and Win NT 4.0 with success.  I played a session of "Alpha Centauri" under
Win98 as sort of a benchmark test, and it is the nicest environment I have
for the game.  I have an existing MS-DOS 6.22 network boot floppy that I
modified with the appropriate LAN drivers, and booted the system from a USB
floppy, then initiated a Win NT 4.0 network install.  All the files and
startup environment copied ok, but I'm about 3 Mb short on CompactFlash
storage space to complete the install.

http://www.jump.net/~vima/LM860A/lm860a_01.jpg

I have not created a custom installation script to obtain a totally
successful NT 4.0 install.  I probably won't either, as NT 4.0 is old, and
this is just a capability test.  However, if someone is fluent in tuning
the scripts and has some interest, I'd be willing to email privately and
see where it goes.

I added an IDE CD-ROM, and booted up the May 2003 BSD install CD.  The
installation environment boots ok, and sees the compact flash drive ok.  As
in the case with Win NT 4.0, I don't intend to use BSD on this system and
won't continue this test on my own initiative.  However, if someone is well
experienced with BSD I am willing to work with them and explore the install
more.

I have a desire to set up a PXE boot environment to test this capability,
and my preference is to use freeware that runs under Win 4.0 Workstation or
Win 2000 Workstation environments.  In particular, I am missing the
proxyDHCP software that handles port 4011.

Their LM862A model has 3 LAN connectors, and might be suitable as a custom
router or control computer in a difficult to access location.

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Aubrey  McIntosh
http://www.piclist.com/member/AM-vima-Y84
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