At 09:06 9/30/2002 +0200, DSC Siltec wrote:
Here's a quick question, perhaps someone would know the answer.Suppose I wanted to make a computer that was completely and automatically native to Linux, such that it automatically bootedinto Linux, nice and quickly. What would the best way of doing this be?
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To ideas come to mind.The first is http://www.openbrick.org, which you can get for around 500 Euros (about $US 500) with Debian pre-installed on compact flash. A few tweaks should let you mount everything important read-only in compact flash with maybe /var and /home on a hard drive and /tmp in a RAM disk.
The second is to do something similar with a CD-ROM, maybe using the very interesting stuff from http://www.lnx-bbc.org or doing a custom Debian install to an ISO image you've mounted through a loopback device. Same deal there: everything except /var and /home is on the CD-ROM or in a RAM disk. The only catch is that the user would need the disk in the drive to boot, just like the old 128K Macs and original PC's.
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