I got one of these from Goodwill. I was able to install the latest version of Linux Mint Cinnamon with no issues. I swapped out the ram for an 8gb stick and schucked a Samsung 870 Evo 512gb and slotted it in. Secured with a zip tie. It's a little oversized but fits and seems to work well. Nice little machine. To fix ACPI shutdown just add noefi in the appropriate spot in grub.conf and upgrade grub. Doesn't seem like a straightforward way to update the bios without a programmer so that's my next challenge.
how i can install Linux Mint Xfce Edition from USB pendrive? Only show GRUB with command line. Only Debian can start from USB, the other distros don't. Thanks.
You Need to disable Secure boot, and then disable UEFI bootloader, set it to Legacy it's quite a bit hidden in the bios ;-) but i'm running Linux Mint 20.3 on the ThinClient now ;-)
Very Interesting Machine. Noticed that it has open pads for an SFP / GBIC port instead of RJ45. Wich on itself is weird. I really wanna find one who has SFP populated :D
Did the terminal powered off completely? Mine stays powered on hanging on reboot: power off message. Also I figured out how to install dell ThinOS or SUSE. All you need to do is first prepare usb for image pulling. Then you need to find thinOS/suse image inside one of bugfix files (open any and click on previous version, you eventually find the base system image). It may happen that dell installer won't work with image if originally device have other system. Mine was delivered with ThinOS and I want install suse. So, I changed master key in XML file of suse on usb to match master key from thinOS and it works just fine. I also removed bios entry from seuse to prevent flashing bios. You may try not removing bios entry, but it can brick your device (as far as I know windows devices has twice as much bios memory as linux version).
Ok so after re-flashing the BIOS I am now able to boot from whatever device I like. This article prove lifesaving www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/zd_bios/programming.shtml
Update I installed 8 GB of RAM and it worked fine. But I can't get Linux to install as GRUB always failed. But if I take SSD out and install Linux to it then put SSD back in Wyse it worked fine.
What worked for me: Flashed the bios with CH341, the grub worked. I think it wan an issue with the NVRAM, it needed to be reset. Banged my head for 2 days fml
I was able to successfully install and run Debian ***NON-FREE*** on a Dell Wyse 5010 Dx0D. I downloaded MATTE desktop only with the install. This was after several trials of various distros. It is likely that there is a missing driver that prevents the GUI/Desktop environment from running. In other distros I was getting a blank screen that was preventing me from entering login information.
They can only take 8gb of ram, as far as I know. Not that these need anymore than that due to them only having low power dual or quad core CPUs. This particular dual core is only clocked at 1.4ghz. 8gb of ram is more than enough.
I have a teamgroup 1tb that’s a half board, their 2tb is a full board. You need to disassemble a 2.5” drive and pull the board out of it. You need to cover the stand off that the original flash drive mounted to or you risk shorting out your replacement SSD.
