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Re: diskless wearable?

Wow! thanks for the various ideas. Unfortunately some of them would'nt
really apply to this case. Since this is supposed to be a general purpose
computation node In an ideal world the system should be self reliant and
cheap. In other words node should boot up by it self . The system would
have now sort of disk and not even a Flash ROM (since there still pretty
expensive).

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pavan reddy,  

"To laugh, or not to laugh"
           -a paranoid droid in a galaxy far, far away.    

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, R. Paul McCarty wrote:

> My wearable is running off of a Sandisk 40MB Flash Drive.  To do the
> install I just plugged a floppy and cdrom into the pc/104 cpu board and
> installed on the flash drive, then pulled the cd and floppy off.  It was
> pretty easy to do, but the biggest problem is stuffing a commercial
> linux release into a small space.  The RedHat distribution version 5.0
> claims to require only 20MB for a minimal install but the installer wont
> let you reduce the installation size below 43MB.  I had to use the
> previous RedHat installation (4.1 I think) to fit it all in. I think the
> installation still used 35MB and I cleaned out some extraneous stuff
> like man pages and got it under 30MB.  Alternatively, netBSD has a
> kernel and some basic apps like telnet, ftp, etc that fits on a single
> floppy.  You could probably just copy this onto the flash drive and boot
> from it.  Also, some of the other Linux distributions I've heard have
> better minimal installations than RedHat. I think SUSE is supposed to
> fit in 20MB without much trouble.
> 
> -Paul
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator /  / x52059
> 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
> Computers don't make mistakes;what they do,they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
> 
> 

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