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Re: Advantech concern

Dave, 
	cant comment on the mounting of the board but as for the bootstrapping.
Since you cant connect a normal cdrom up to the board you'd be far
better of using a 2.5" to 3.5" HDD adapter and doing the install on your
desktop machine then swap the HDD back and do a fresh kernel build once
everything's on the biscuit. Alternatively if you've got network setup
on your main pc then you could transfer all the files over the ether net
to a spare partition and go about things from there.Either way would be
preferable I think to doing a floppy install.
	regards
		Shane

Dave Storrs wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
>         The following info is offered as something in the way of a
> warning:
> 
>         I just bought a PCM-5820E from Advantech, which is supposedly
> identical to their 5820 except that the E has a low-power CPU (quite a
> savings, too...instead of a 233Mhz, you get a 200, but instead of ,
> you get ).  I also bought the case which is listed as working with
> the 5820 series.  Well, everything arrived a couple days ago and I sat
> down to put it all together.  I immediately ran into two problems:
> 
> 1) The power input was mounted with the leads pointing _down_.  I don't
> know if this is standard practice but, after studying it for quite a while
> and fiddling with it, I became convinced that there was no way to mount
> the board, as the power leads were in the way!  I took out the power input
> and turned it over so the leads went up, and then everything worked fine.
> 
> 2) More seriously, the face-plate (don't know what the official term
> is--the bit with the holes for all the ports, the reset button, the LEDs,
> etc) does not allow enough room to pass the screw-posts for the serial and
> parallel ports (the things which hold the cable in place).  As a result,
> the face plate cannot be mounted once the SBC is in the case.
> 
>         I intend to get on the phone with Advantech and find out if maybe
> this was just a bad cut, or if there is another version of the case that
> will work better, or what.  I would have done that this morning, except
> that there was a fire alarm in my apartment building.
> 
>         Couple of questions for all of you about mounting the board:
> 
> 1) Do you generally screw the board directly to the case, or are there
> supposed to be rubber stoppers in between or something?
> 
> 2) I've got a 2.5" Toshiba HDD for this thing...there is enough space in
> the case for it, but nowhere specifically designed to put it.  I've been
> thinking about just wedging it in place with foam, but I'm not sure about
> the idea of having foam in direct contact with the surface of the board
> (at least in spots).  Any suggestions/recommendations?
> 
> 3) I've been thinking about how to get this system jumpstarted.  The board
> has a 3.5" FDD controller and a 2.5" HDD controller and a CF socket.  At
> the moment, I'm only using the HDD.  At this point, my plan is to take the
> FDD out of my desktop machine and boot from that the first time so that I
> can get Linux installed on the HDD.  Is this the best way?
> 
>         Ok, that was three questions and the last one wasn't about
> mounting the board.  I never said I was consistent. :>
> 
>                                 Dave
> 
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