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Re: diskless wearable?

For the IBM PC110 users I'm on a mailing list with (That's a tiny 486
palmtop with a compact flash slot on the right, and 2 type II PCMCIA
slots, stacked on the left, and a little 4 Mb internal Flash) folks use
a 32-40 meg Compact Flash disk for a boot disk fairly often (& need no
swap partition with 20 Mb of RAM onboard) - then a second Flash PCMCIA
card for user data.  [I plan to get a 40 Mb CF soon for mine, get more
RAM, and use a 10 Mb Type II Flash card for user files]  Then I can plug
in a PCMCIA Net, Modem, or whatever card in the remaining PCMCIA slot,
that'll be a neat tool until I get my wearable up & fully running. 
(Currently on a PCMCIA Hard Drive, unable to put in a LAN card, argh.)

  You might be able to do something of this sort (I'm assuming that your
solid state disk is a Flash card or battery-backed SRAM, here, or is
otherwise treatable as an ATA disk?)

  If your solid state disk is some kind of PCMCIA device, you should be
able to set it up properly in a desktop or laptop Linux box, plug it
into the PC-104, and "Let 'er Rip!"...

  Mark Willis
  

pavan wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could help me out here. I'm working on a project
> in college (WPI), where we have to build a Network based video surveilence
> system. Unlike some systems which use a camera that has inbuilt networking
> capabilities, we have to build a general purpose computaion node
> ( A really small computer that you can plug a cameraor two or as a
> matter of fact any other device into).  Because of the  small form factor
> and a PC compatible architecture we deceided to use a PC104 system. Because of
> various other advantages we deceided to use run linux on the box. Well as
> you can see this is very similar to wearables except for two things 1) No
> HMD and keyboard even though you should be able to plug one in and 2)No
> Disk (will use a Solid State one instead).
> 
> So I was wondering if there is anyone out there who got linux to boot  on
> a pc104 through a solid state disk or through netboot (or anyother
> loader). Or if there are any better solutions I'd love to know about them.
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> pavan , 
> 
> "To laugh, or not to laugh?"
>            -a paranoid droid in a galaxy far, far away.

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