Text 13469, 90 rader
Skriven 2009-11-21 14:42:59 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 13411 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: take me down where the good stuff grows
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Hello Maurice.

16 Nov 09 00:51, you wrote to me:

 MK> Maybe.  So far no bytes but it is doable.

Maybe I should complain on the ttylinux forum ... <BEG>

 >> No idea, I have just loaded them onto the USB stick an booted

 MK> Sounds like an initrd.

Disabled the "quick" and "quiet" boot options in the BIOS and I see a message 
"Initrd loading" so that is a good guess ... :-)

 >> Sounds good ... , and I like the startx idea, as I only use x
 >> for a few things that  I need that need x

 MK> Same situation as all concerned in this neck of the woods.

Hmmm ... , thinking about it, a ttylinux booting from the main 2gig. SSD disk, 
and a eeebuntu type setup booting from a 16gig. SD Card, just might be the way 
to go with this little baby ...

 >> Well, how big does that come out when bzip'ed

 MK> Not sure but my guesstimate would be in the 400M range.

Not bad at all ...

 >> and is it an installable iso?

 MK> Nope.  If Paul wants to try one out first I suppose it could be. I'd
 MK> be inclined to use ttylinux as an initrd and the rest as a chrootable
 MK> system from there.  You'd need a writable drive to make it worth
 MK> anything though as it doesn't make sense to have all the development
 MK> stuff without any writable drive to install it to.  Exactly what is
 MK> attractive about an iso?  I'd think a tarball distro that can be
 MK> unpacked to a partition would be more valuable, especially on an eeepc
 MK> that lacks a CD/DVD rom. Your usb flashdisk sounds like a better idea.

The only thing attractive about a "bootable" iso, is t hat I have a utility 
that writes it to a USB stick with very little effort this side ... :-))

 >> I only have a 2Gig. ssd in my eeepc, and swap also needs to be
 >> configured in,

 MK> For Paul's I just used a usb 2.5" drive wired into a usb port for all
 MK> that.  He can then chroot from the ssd and everything on the drive
 MK> automagically gets mounted and turned on - swap, build space, home,
 MK> the whole shebang.  Works like a charm.

So far, I have not touched the SSD, install everything onto a SD Card (4gig.) 
and then select it at boot time from the BIOS, only have a 2gig. USB memory 
stick, that I write the iso's to, with the above mentioned utility, and 
install from there. I saw a very nice Transcend 500Gig 2.5 USB external HDD, 
at a shop that recently opened up close to where my Step-Son works, he was a 
little late finishing work this afternoon, so while I waited for him, I took a 
quick gander around the new emporium ...

Could put all of the above on there, and have plenty space, left, for storing 
music files ...

 >> Bandwidth is limited to about 800meg which has to last till
 >> the end of the month

 MK> No rush on my account.  Besides you may wish to weigh this proposal
 MK> first as it'll cost us both in bandwidth since my account has a
 MK> smaller bandwidth for uploads (a download from your perspective) but
 MK> this won't cost me any extra since I never have used up the upload
 MK> limit yet. This won't.  Also I'll take the liberty of bringing the
 MK> kernel up to date which I was doing anyhow.  Had a couple brownouts
 MK> today and decided to give eveything the rest of the day off.

Here, I have a 2 gig. account, and a 1 gig. account, all downloads and uploads 
are counted towards these "caps", so I try and have things work out that the 2 
gig. account gets used up, around the 18th-20ty of the month, until them the 
kids have reasonably open access to the internet, but once I switch over to 
the "reserve" account, their internet access is severely limited ...

Have a small 600VA UPS here, I want to plug the ADSL modem, POTS modem and my 
EeePc into for we still have regular - irregular power cuts here ... , should 
keep those running for awhile ... , at least.

Thanks,

Russell

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