Text 12979, 86 rader
Skriven 2009-07-21 17:27:20 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 12978 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: be-bop-a-lula she's my baby
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Hello Maurice.

20 Jul 09 13:32, you wrote to me:

 MK> That is more or less how it started here.  I did have one pci card
 MK> that could hotswap ide's but that only worked with a buggy chipset
 MK> that is no longer manufactured in conjunction with some modprobe
 MK> jiggery-pokery at the time.  Given what has happened since, then usb
 MK> is the better and cheaper solution generically speaking.

Agreed ...

 >> been promised a 160Gig HDD for that box, am then hoping to
 >> install Blue Dot Linux to it

 MK> Overkill but what the heck eh?  Lately I've discovered that ~8G for
 MK> something like this is the optimal answer and that includes storage
 MK> space, building space, as well as more than enough space for the
 MK> boot/root which effectively offers much elbow room and future
 MK> upgrading.

Well, overkill it might be, but get it working first, and learn it's quirks, 
and then make a plan to move it to a cfdisk ...

 >> and then get the Matrox frambuffer going ...

 MK> Now you're talking!!!  You'll also want mga_vid especially for your
 MK> demo idea.

That is the general idea ... <grin>

 >> Well, if it fits on a 64M cfdisk

 MK> It might if a compressed 128M ramdisk is employed.  I haven't checked
 MK> yet as I haven't been compressing them as of late.  I find that I've
 MK> been too experimental lately and leaving them uncompressed saves me a
 MK> bunch of grief.  Also I have no idea if the samba client crap actually
 MK> works. Unless you tell me chances are good I will never know the
 MK> answer.

 >> Blue Dot Linux seems a better option at the moment

 MK> Understood.  Once there I am sure anything further can be readily
 MK> added.

Again, that is the plan ...

 >> Well, if not, why not

 MK> I ask myself that daily.

Not quite daily here, but so it goes ...

 >> I can now up the ante, to a 2Gig cfdisk

 MK> I have a usb one that size and have never used the whole shebang ...
 MK> yet. I created two partitions on there, 64M and the rest, and use the
 MK> 64M partition for boot kernels and ramdisk(s).  I was thinking about
 MK> using the second partion for installation and upgrade packages but
 MK> have yet to do that.  A 2Gig cfdisk will definetly suit your demo idea
 MK> and then some. it'll have something onboard to show off if no
 MK> networking is available. On an ide interface bandwidth won't be an
 MK> issue.

That is what I thought as well ...

 >> but ttylinux might end being the winner

 MK> For the cfdisk multimedia idea?  FOR SURE!!!

Hmmm .... ,

 >> I have finished driving Douglas "mad" I will be ready to
 >> adapt that list to my system here.

 MK> Sounds like a plan.  :-)

Well my first build for the evening has just reached coreutils, so the moment 
of truth is not far off, seeing as I managed to start a little earlier than 
normal, I just might have time for a second build if it bombs out, in a few 
minutes ... :-(

Russell

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