[please take thes suggestions with a grain of salt, I am a newbie to
PC/104. More like stream of consciousness ;) I would look into these
options first myself.]
You can have it boot up on its own, and if you want to service it (ie add
more software) you can hook it up to a desktop via a serial port.
Maybe PPP over parallel port is better ?
Or if you can hook up a floppy drive, boot and install with it.
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On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, pavan wrote:
> 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).
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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