Text 7655, 62 rader
Skriven 2006-10-19 01:27:02 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 7654 av Paul Rogers (1:105/360.0)
Ärende: ttylinux
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Hey Paul!

Oct 18 17:39 06, Paul Rogers wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 PR> Naw, just the SOS.  I'm starting to work on the Trinux
 PR> linuxrc for its initrd.

Interesting.  I did something like that a few weeks ago wrt checking/mounting a
hard drive(s) partition(s) from a ramdisk on bootup and found that to be a
rewarding experience.  At present I am taking advantage of rc.local as that is
the last in the chain of rc's.  I think this method will work great for flash
disk boots whether ide or usb.  Also am going to look at a new usb flash disk
that the local computer shop owner thought I might be interested in and if it
speeds up the boot process then I believe he is right.  It is supposed to be in
tomorrow but I probably will wait until next week to pick it up.  As a bonus I
found a virgin (unused) 486 still in it's original box in his basement and
willingly liberated that as my first targetted machine from the 64-bit machine.
 I am going to use a ide flash disk I happen to have handy for that cause.  I
still need to open it up to take out the unneeded hardware and add two
ethernets as my plan is to use that as a hub/bridge between the wireless and
wired LANs here.  Also plan to put the new BBS on for the wireless network. 
This all promises to be a very rewarding experience for both the new and old
here.

 MK>> and client for things like clustering, file and/or memory sharing, 
 MK>> and whatever else might fall into this sort of networking

 PR> You did WHAT?!?!  Whatever happened to "minimalist"?

It's still here, alive and well.  Mean ***AND*** lean.  I've never subscribed
to just lean which is totally unlike the embedded DOS-think dweebs.  Without
mean minimalism is worthless.  Right?

 PR> Looks like you've gone down the path Matthew Franz did
 PR> with trinux.  It's called "agglomeration".

 PR> From a nice boot-floppy, he's got it searching every hard
 PR> drive in sight, the CD drive, and snarfing things from a
 PR> network to load every package it can find!

Not here.  It will only use what it needs when it needs it.  The only machines
here that need hard drives are the ftp server and the current 64-bit
experimental box that I plan to use to target the rest.  CD drive?  What is
that?  Are they worth anything?

All that got the heave-ho and now it is definetly official since the last
holdout (a DVD-ROM) got pulled out of the 64-bit machine and was replaced with
a ide hard drive which proved itself a couple days ago.  No more plastic
spinney things.  They are history.

 MK>> Having said that, web browsing is still out of reach as far as proper
 MK>> minimalization of 64-bit web apps go.  Not an issue to me

 PR> <ROTFLMAO>

Exactly.

Life is good,
Maurice

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