maybe this will help http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Cours" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:22 AM Subject: Re: Linux-native ROM?
> At 09:06 9/30/2002 +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: > >Here's a quick question, perhaps someone would know the answer. > > > >Suppose I wanted to make a computer that was completely and automatically > >native to Linux, such that it automatically booted > >into Linux, nice and quickly. What would the best way of doing > >this be? > > Unfortunately I just had to unsubscribe from debian-user to keep my in-box > from overflowing[1], so please cc me if you need to reply to me. > > To ideas come to mind. > > The first is http://www.openbrick.org, which you can get for around 500 > Euros (about $US 500) with Debian pre-installed on compact flash. A few > tweaks should let you mount everything important read-only in compact flash > with maybe /var and /home on a hard drive and /tmp in a RAM disk. > > The second is to do something similar with a CD-ROM, maybe using the very > interesting stuff from http://www.lnx-bbc.org or doing a custom Debian > install to an ISO image you've mounted through a loopback device. Same deal > there: everything except /var and /home is on the CD-ROM or in a RAM disk. > The only catch is that the user would need the disk in the drive to boot, > just like the old 128K Macs and original PC's. > > - Jeff > > [1] My fetchmail/imap server fried last night to the point that it won't > even get to the BIOS screen, so mail's backing up in my spool on the ISP > until I can fix the beast. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
