Just found it free, was out to the trash. Put in my own isp dialupsettings and it works.
Now to figure out how to hack it and put on Linux.
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Thanks. Putting Linux on it will not be easy. It seems you have to buy a special ide cable to hook up a drive...hate spending money.
Just got into Linux this past fall, so it should be an interesting project.
Or you can mod a regular cable by changing up the position of the connectors. I just Google'd it up and they just use two connectors side-by-side and plug into the middle set of pins. Modifying a standard 40-pin ATA cable is fairly easy if you are careful when moving the connector and lining it up to pierce the insulation.
You can hack it. Possibly. www.linux-hacker.net is a great resource for information, although it hasn't been touched in over five years.
If you have a V3 or V4, you're going to need to either flash the BIOS or replace the BIOS chip with a V1/V2 chip. You can tell if it's a V3/V4 if there's a warranty sticker covering one of the screw holes on the back, and the screws in the stand on the back of the I-Opener are anti-tamper torx screws with a little pin in the middle.
You can get a hard drive adapter from Wizztronics.com for about $45 shipped, if they still have them in stock (they still did when I got mine about a month ago). It's a bit pricey, but easier than trying to cobble together your own IDE cable.
The CPU is horrendously slow, although if you have a newer hardware revision, you might be lucky and have a Rise 266MHz processor that, I believe, supports MMX. You're better off sticking a better Socket 7 CPU in there (Pentium or AMD K6-2/K6-III) and modding the board (removing a couple resistors and adding a couple SMT DIP switches) to make the CPU run faster than 200MHz.
A couple things to note:
It WILL NOT boot off USB. Any OS installation will have to be done either from another computer or from the installed hard drive. There are a few tiny Linux distros floating around, and you can try getting on onto the internal 16MB flash chip.
If you're not handy with a soldering iron and comfortable working with tiny surface-mount components, the best you're going to be able to do is install Windows 98 on it. If you have a newer model with the Rise CPU, there's a two-position DIP switch on the board that will let you change the CPU voltage, and you can install a better CPU (although it will be limited to 200MHz unless you mod the motherboard).