{"id":46,"date":"2005-12-20T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2013-01-28T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:58:53","slug":"midori-linux-on-the-compaq-ia-1-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/46\/midori-linux-on-the-compaq-ia-1-update","title":{"rendered":"Midori Linux on the Compaq IA-1 (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/ia1.gif' alt='IA-1' class=\"alignright\"\/>I had no trouble putting Midori Linux (<a href=\"http:\/\/m4i.homeip.net\/\" target=\"new\">best package found here<\/a>) on the IA-1 last night after following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ia1hacking.com\/ia1_viewarticle.php?idx=10&#038;page=2\" target=\"new\">these instructions<\/a> (and using a program called WinImage instead of Dskprobe in Win2k).  For anyone taking notes, make sure you use the El Torito image first before attempting to install\/boot Midori, as listed in the instructions above.<\/p>\n<p>This thing is <em>cool<\/em>.  I never expected to have so much fun with it.  The particular Midori distribution I used has been tailored specifically to the unit, so everything works instantly &#8212; LCD, keyboard, sound card, modem, USB ethernet, and USB wlan drivers are included.  It&#8217;s got an XFree86 GUI with the Ice window manager (looks nice) and some apps like Opera, an email client, and an MP3 player, which are useful.  It&#8217;s amazing they squeezed all that stuff into 16 megs of space.  Once I get a USB ethernet NIC, I&#8217;m thinking about putting it in the living room, hooking it to the stereo,  and using it as a streaming MP3 client (The XMMS MP3-player built into the Midori package supports this).  You could do a lot of neat stuff with this machine.  Maybe I&#8217;ll put MS-DOS on it and run a BBS.  Or perhaps it should be my dedicated Klondike solitaire machine. \ud83d\ude42  Either way, this thing is neat.  If you can find one for under $30 and are comfortable with doing some simple modifications, get it.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Update: 01\/28\/2013<\/strong> &#8211; Since most of the Compaq IA-1 pages out there are dead now, I&#8217;ve decided to host a version of the Midori Linux image for the Compaq IA-1.  You can <a href=\"\/wp-content\/files\/ia1\/Compaq_IA-1_Linux_Kit.zip\" target=\"_blank\">download it here<\/a>.  It also includes the El Torito boot image and instructions on how to use it in a text file.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no trouble putting Midori Linux (best package found here) on the IA-1 last night after following these instructions (and using a program called WinImage instead of Dskprobe in Win2k). For anyone taking notes, make sure you use the El Torito image first before attempting to install\/boot Midori, as listed in the instructions above. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-projects","category-recent-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}