Re: [gentoo-dev] random thought based on live-cd's

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Friday 22 November 2002 14:45, Michael Cummings wrote:
> OK, so I had this random thought this morning that I had to share,
> knowing full well that the ridicule will be great as soon as someone
> reads this. But hey, it's Friday morning over here, time for some
> silliness thoughts...
>
> Around my house I have a lot of "frankenstein" machines - cobbled
> together from spare parts, processors tending to be ancient, bootable
> but barely usable once you try installing an OS. It's struck me, though,
> that if there was a bootable CD with the OS already on it, that would
> save some disk space and leave a lot of the machine "free" to do other
> things. So...what about specialized boot CD's, a la the router project
> on a floppy, the games cd, etc., that contain a core gentoo install on
> cd, then a floppy disk containing config files for networking and such,
> where the CD is a focussed build. Then you could have a poor man's linux
> app, where by booting from cd you could have...
>
> * a node on an openmosix cluster
> * a file server
> * a print server
> * a web/mail server
> * a SAINT type boot for network monitoring and such
>
> Any or all in combination (except the first - that would be a different
> kernel all together). Yeah, the more I write the less good the idea
> seems, but maybe someone else will see a merrit I don't and go from
> there. Part of this came from a day dream about having a collection of
> motherboards with minimal hard drive space in a "cheap" openmosix
> cluster for combined computing, then went from there.
>
> Thoughts welcome,

I think that could be a good project, just make sure the architecture is not 
higher than pentium1. Also I expect a lot of those frankensteins have ancient 
bioses that are incapable of booting from CD. So also make a bootdisk that 
boots the cd.

Paul

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