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