[SunRescue] I-Opener musings

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Huhn [mailto:kurthuhn at k-huhn.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:10 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] I-Opener musings
> 
> 
> >Ignore ebay.  Buy one directly from www.netpliance.com.
> >
> Good advice - seeing as how the ebay price on some is up over $200US -
> pretty good for reselling something you didn't make.  Talk about grey
> market...

Dang...  That's kinda evil.  Sounds like the Russian trip my cousin too back
in '82.  Almost double the official exchange rate, if you did it under the
table, literally.  :-)  (can I get away with that, it's not my list...)

> >
> >They're all still "hackable" - people on ebay are spreading 
> the rumor that
> >"new units dont have the IDE port" - in order to try to drive up the
> bidding
> >prices.  Just ignore ebay altogether and buy a unit straight from the
> >maker (like I did this morning; total cost of $147.11 
> including shipping).
> >
> I'll do it then.  This thing is too neat to pass up.
> I was just about to submit my CC info to Netpliance when I 
> realized that the
> CPU was different - then I saw the "creative" wording on ebay 
> and thought
> twice.  Should've trusted my instinct and went ahead with it.

Well, maybe I'll have to get one, I've got a 2.5" HD just lying on the desk
behind me.  Does anybody know anything about ethernet for these beasteies?
I wanna netboot... or at least just store the kernel on the machine, and all
binaries on the server.
	Greg