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I've done something very similar to this with Slack8. I made a fully |
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bootable version of Slack8 with everything you need to do all kinds of |
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stuff and I was able to fit it on a mini CD (which holds about 180 |
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megs). Slack8 was a little bit harder to do that gentoo would be. If |
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anyone wants my help I'm interested in making a Gentoo mini CD to |
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replace my Slack cd. |
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On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 14:06, mbutcher wrote: |
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> I have been working on something similar to this. It should be possible, but |
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> will take work. Things you might like to read up on are: initrd (initial |
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> ramdisks), MTD (Linux kernel support for memory devices), and booting with |
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> grub. |
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> |
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> What kind of hardware are you thinking of using? GCT Allwell |
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> (http://www.allwell.tv) makes some cool x86 based appliances. |
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> |
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> Feel free to email me directly about stuff that is off topic for Gentoo |
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> Linux. This list, I'm sure, can provide some practical information about |
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> Gentoo on devices. |
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> |
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> Matt |
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> |
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> On Thursday 04 April 2002 10:50 am, Todd wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > Hi, |
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> > Does Gentoo boot from CD-ROM and or Flash drives. Can this be done? |
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> > I am trying to make a Web Appliance, needing Netscape, Shockwave and |
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> > Flash/real player, for handicap children, ages 2-10 years old. It needs to |
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> > be a low MB image roughly 200MB or lower to accommodate this. I would like |
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> > to have one run only with CDROM and one with 2.5"Flash drives. Is this |
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> > possible? And if it is please let me know which product I need to buy! |
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> > |
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> > Thanks! |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Todd Maxwell |
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> > Office 770-509-9030 |
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> > tmaxnet@××××××××××.com |
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