Folks, (Yeah, I know I should have used a more "meaningful subject" '-)
My 2 HDD's have got some strange ailment (power surge?) and are in their death throes. Soon I may be left up the room without the paddle... err the PC. What I want to know is, is it possible to have a bootable CD with linux which I can use when them spinners die on me. I have already begged and borrowed these two from my friends, I have no hope for other. All I need is a minimal system which runs CMUCL + Emacs (+ ilisp). If I can have X running with a browser it will be truly wonderful. But how does one deal with all the files which get written automatically? the error records, the /var files, etc? RAMDisk? Can any (good Samaritan) with a CD-Writer, do me a huge favour and create this CD for me? And if the good Samaritan with the CD-Writer does not know how to do it, can other good Samaritans without CD-Writers help him (and me) out?
The other option would be a bootable floppy. What OS would it be? and how much stuff of the above be accommodated on it?
quasi
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--- Q u a s i quasiabhi@yahoo.com wrote:
What I want to know is, is it possible to have a bootable CD with linux which I can use when them spinners die on me.
Prakash Shetty has been working on just such a CD ... he had mentioned it quite some time ago, even I would be interested to try it out - the doubt that I have, is how does the CD handle diverse multimedia hardware?
The other option would be a bootable floppy. What OS would it be?
QNX?
SameerDS.
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At 12:26 PM 9/7/01 -0700, SS wrote:
What I want to know is, is it possible to have a bootable CD with linux which I can use when them spinners die on me.
Prakash Shetty has been working on just such a CD ... he had mentioned it quite some time ago, even I would be interested to try it out - the doubt that I have, is how does the CD handle diverse multimedia hardware?
How does one contact Prakash Shetty?
The other option would be a bootable floppy. What OS would it be?
QNX?
A bootable QNX will contain the GUI?
q
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Q u a s i wrote:
QNX?
A bootable QNX will contain the GUI?
The entire QNX demo is on a floppy, and yes, it contains GUI, file manager and web browser, with auto network detection. Didn't detect my network though. eepro100
Philip
--- Q u a s i quasiabhi@yahoo.com wrote:
How does one contact Prakash Shetty?
Errr ... did I confuse some name here? I thought he is a member of this mailing list??
A bootable QNX will contain the GUI?
Never used it, but I think it is supposed to have a GUI, a mail client and a browser on a single floppy ...
SameerDS.
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Sometime Today, Q u a s i assembled some asciibets to say:
PC. What I want to know is, is it possible to have a bootable CD with linux which I can use when them spinners die on me. I have already begged
DemoLinux. Some people on the lug may have it. Full with X and everything. You'll have to pass kernel parameters on the command line to recognise more than 64MB RAM.
Philip
At 02:01 PM 9/8/01 +0530, PT wrote:
DemoLinux. Some people on the lug may have it. Full with X and everything. You'll have to pass kernel parameters on the command line to recognise more than 64MB RAM.
Is it possible to have a customised copy of DemoLinux? I have to have a few software in it. Are you sure it does not use the HDD for writing some temp stuff. Is it possible that it uses the FAT or FAT32 for the temp files? I want one to run on diskless (my poor PC so degraded.. :( ) machines.
q
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--- Q u a s i quasiabhi@yahoo.com wrote:
Folks, (Yeah, I know I should have used a more "meaningful subject" '-) hope for other. All I need is a minimal system which runs CMUCL
[snip] dude....wat abt a bootable system thats runs linux.....boots of a CD. If it's fine with ya...
Trevor Warren
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At 08:01 PM 9/7/01 -0700, TW wrote:
[snip] dude....wat abt a bootable system thats runs linux.....boots of a CD. If it's fine with ya...
It will not only be fine, it may be superfine ;). But I need to have a few software in it. Can it be done? And if it can be, will ya?
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