RE: Attention ZipSlackers

["Pete Cook" <pete.cook-at-alltracorp.com>]

Nice  - no moving parts, plugs into IDE, but a bit pricy - kind of like a
1990 disk drive...

Pete

>
> Hi Matt
> I was looking into something else like that (can't remember where)
> the biz card CDs are 50Mb and the minis are 185Mb either one would
> work for a small embeded EMC distro
> but I dont like having to put the config files on a seperate floppy
> I'd always be wondering which disk would fail first out on the floor
>
> how about one of these instead (extra long URL)
> http://www.flashmemory.com.au/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=
> 3&cat=FlashMemory+Disk+Drives
>
> with a 32-512Mb compact flash card
> with a few tricks you could probably trim it to <16M like
> these guys did
> http://jailbait.sourceforge.net/
>
> with flash you have to keep writes to a reasonable minimum so no swap
> and some files and directorys have to get moved/linked to ram disks
> but it's workable and there are no moving parts to worry about
>
> oh yea ,and one of these (another extra long URL)
> http://www.flashmemory.com.au/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=
21&cat=USB+Key+Drives
as a sneaker-net upgrade ;-)

Brian



On Sunday 03 February 2002 21:11, you wrote:
> I've been following the Slackware thread recently and wanted to point
> you folks to an interesting distribution that could be the basis of a
> "boot from CD" version of the EMC:
>
> http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
>
> This disk boots and mounts all available partitions, ext, fat, etc.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Matt