[geeks] Disk images
Lionel Peterson
lionel4287 at verizon.net
Tue Mar 15 23:33:46 CST 2005
> From: Atom <rescue at port11.net>
> Date: 2005/03/15 Tue PM 09:15:48 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Disk images
> I will try the network thing next. Right now the machines are very
> limited. They are older K6-400's rugged trunk-mount computers for
> policecars.
Interesting - around here, the cops all have laptops in their cars...
> They don't have anything besides serial and pcmcia and a floppy drive.
> So I will need to build a linux distro that fits on one floppy and have
> drivers for 10/100 pcmcia nic and wifi.
Uh, how will you do that? One floppy?
Why not Knoppix on a 1 Gig PCMCIA card? Is PCMCIA CD-ROM drive an option? Do these have HDs inside, or is the PCMCIA slot the mass storage device for the system?
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