[ale] Zapmedia Zapstation

[Brian Pitts]

I thought I'd post a follow-up on about the Zapstation. I was able to 
put the BIOS chip in an Asus motherboard of the same generation and 
flash it. I had to use Asus's special flashing utility; Uniflash saw it 
as read-only. After flashing I could see at the POST screen that the RAM 
was registering as only 32mb! I put in a 128mb PC-100 stick and booted 
SystemRescueCD. Everything looked good except the locked hard drive. I 
rebooted into freedos, burned a cd with qunlock, and unlocked the hard 
drive. Now the Zapstation's linux OS loads and I'm able to navigate 
through the functions using the front-panel buttons. Sadly my usb 
keyboard doesn't work.

I suppose I'll add a larger hard drive now and install a newer linux 
distribution. It's a shame to lose the front panel lcd and buttons 
(particularly the eject button), but a working keyboard is a must.

If anyone knows a Doug who lived at street number 270 in Athens, have 
him contact me if he needs the photos off this thing.

-Brian