Sorry to hear about your frustrations. With regards to windows, its not legal to repack a windows image and redistribute it within the m-soft eula. Many here will help if asked however they put their neck on the chopping block if they offer an image freely in a public venue. File download sites often wipe inactive files after a period of time. I have seen it with the linux images I make and put up on fileplanet.com.
I wish I was capable enough to fabricate an installable linux iso for the DT however I am not that gifted. There is a tool that allows one to back up the entirety of their hard disk and to save it s a single file. This tool also allows one to move that file in to an existing hard disk and essentially "restore" to that image. Due to the nature of how the computer works its a little tricky to do. Search "dd" on this forum and in the faq section and it will be highlighted. This is the dd tool and it is what I have used to make any images I have posted about on this forum.
Volkswagner utilized another tool that is much easier to use called Clonezilla. He has reworked one of my images and used clonezilla to make it super easy to install. Here is a link.
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If you wanted to build your own linux image on the disk I would be happy to help in any way I could. Check out this post as I gave some basic instructions on how to get started.
forum/viewtopic.php?p=2744#p2744
A usb hub, usb keyboard and a usb cdrom (or pendrive set up with unetbootin) is all that one needs. Feel free to pm me with specific questions for a fast response. Or add to this thread with anything that comes up as a tutorial for any who follow.
As for what would not work on linux with the motherboard, not much. I never paid attention to the record button for recording sounds. LinuxMCE has been successful in making this work quite well. Bluetooth works well, the wifi is supported across all models (DT360 was a pita with the via mini pcie card) but the 366 is not an issue. Debian and Ubuntu linux support hard buttons. If you have a 500 meg flash rom I would stick with Debian as it uses less real estate. Sound works in debian however I am running in to bugs in ubuntu 9.04. All in all I think linux would surprise you as to how well the hardware integrates. We must go to
www.penmount.com to get our touchscreen drivers. We have the PCM9000 serial model. Grab my file from that earlier mentioned post as the graphic interface file (xorg.conf) that the install utility makes is not often usable on linux.
If you want to try linux out you have support. Let me ask what your specific hardware is and possibly I can recommend a distribution. Space is a concern so hard drive size and model number are important as the 366GX is more limited. Let me know...
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