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This might be a great way for users with limited hard drive space to use linux. If the system created a linux directory in the windows hard drive (c:) then you could create a /home, /etc and /usr/local on the windows drive which would give you a pretty usable system with the ability to adapt to the system being used. Any way to make a scaled down version for use on 32 meg systems?
Yes of course , i have already done some thinking , the only problem present are the possibility to damage partitons
and so on (very very slim) , i have one little ugly script idea present in /bin folder , that do a copy of /etc and /root folders in gzip format to a diskette , that can be loaded at boot and saved at shutdown , i have not put enough time to it :( so it is not finished yet , i mean the two ideas are very similar .
Further , the thing to do to lower the ram usage are to decrease the dev's present in ram , use a smaller lib , the present one are almost 5 meg , i have tried to strip the libs , but that does not work .
However all of it are doable , most of it comes with the next ' real ' release ( i am working ....) that contains newer kde libs kernel etc , and a smaller ramdisk < 20 megs
the present takes 20 megs wich makes a 32 meg machine crawl
:)
plz , keep on giving me ideas ! , more will happen then :)
yours CriXz
don't use kde, use wmaker instead! will be much faster (www.windowmaker.org) instead -> esp. on slower machines (p100)!!!!
tarzeau@space.ch
don't use kde, use wmaker instead! will be much faster (www.windowmaker.org) instead -> esp. on slower machines (p100)!!!!
tarzeau@space.ch
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I have implemented something like it in the newest release
0.8 , settings are svaed by default to a directory on
c :\virt_lin , and a swapfile (32 mb) are also created in
the same folder .
I cant use a realfolder directly because vfat lacks support
for the filepermissions linux use .
Please give me more ideas like this !
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Also have the option to mount on boot /home, /etc and maybe
others as NFS from somewhere; also load /etc from floppy if
available (ie containing a nice fstab that will do the NFS
magic).
As usage - I would like to have my machine boot from this
CD, load the settings from floppy and mount my encrypted HDD :)
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Other crazy ideas:
1. boot it, make changes and have it generate its new ISO on
a mounted HDD; ready to be burned
2. have it reburn itself as being stored on a rewritable CD
in a CD-writer device (I admit that this one is too crazy -
since the fs on the CD is in use)
Really (1) would solve a lot of customization issues.
[pls ack that this comments reaches you, I have no feedback
after pressing submit :( ]
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Hi !
Yes i catched your comment :)
However, please put these kinds of comments in the open discussion
forum, i had almost forgotten this one :)
However, i am working on several approaches to solve the never ending
problem with saved settings , i am going to implement floppy disks
and the possibility to save more things etc ..
Please keep posing ideas, no matter how crazy they are !
Man y of the posings so far has become reality .
Marten