From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4A75003B.8090800@degood.org> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:55:55 -0400 From: John DeGood User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <3e1162e60907311050p34d7aecfm79f841ab25ced2af@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130907311856o100b2f4btf15d2f522e8f4d2b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130907311856o100b2f4btf15d2f522e8f4d2b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 355f41d8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 J.R. Mauro wrote: > Doesn't ASUS burn the Linux distro into a chip, though? Maybe there > are utilities to flash it with something else. I believe new ASUS motherboards typically boot Splashtop from hard disk, not from flash. On my ASUS M4A78 PLUS, Splashtop can be installed into a directory tree "\ASUS.SYS" (~500 MB) on any partition with a Windows filesystem. The ASUS BIOS displays a gaudy splashscreen that allows the user to choose Splashtop or the normal OS. Source seems to be here: http://www.splashtop.com/open_source.php John