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Re: unix on a CD, rethought. got more info for u all

HEy this sounds great. Also you may waant to check this out:
http://www.demolinux.org

i have used this on several occasions and it works great! it even works on
laptops fine! i believe it is well documented....it comes with a lot of
software including the bloated staroffice. it really is a pretty neat idea.

Hope this helps!

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:48:20AM -0400,  wrote:
> well now I remember why I got this idea in me to build a bootable CD (like 
> LOAF or QNX or PicoBSD but for CD media or CF), it was a review on TechTV 
> (please don't laugh at me, I watch for stocks only,the rest is trivial) about 
> the NIC (Network something or rather, I forget) its got a 200mhz NS Geode (I 
> think) and ram is upgradeable, comes with NIC and modem and usb and vga and 
> maybe TV-out, 
> has a cd-rom drive and reads CDrom for OS and hardware updates, it lock the 
> cd drive during operation and boots right up, so my question is where is 
> there swap and other stuff necessary for a succesful opensource OS internet 
> appliance?
> It comes with a custom Linux distro (might be based on Redhat, not sure) 
> I am gonna hunt down some NIC hacking sites and try to find info about 
> building a bootable CD OS setup, and post back here, in the meantime if you 
> (lurker,smirker,poster,hoster, midnight toker) have anything to add then 
> please do so
> 
> I am gonna head over back to FRY'S (not so bad in the south so far(Arlington 
> and Dallas Texas) nothing but good parts and bad waiting lines)
> and get a little ATA flash card for high speed swap file disk (PC and 
> wearable)
> 
> cheers all, chow, adios muchachos
> 
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