In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Philip) writes:
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> i've re-thought my mini linux idea & instead have decided to burn a
> streaming (*more on this in a moment) distribution. it will boot from a
> floppy & tell the computer the root is on the cdrom.here, a x server & a
> special kernel optimized for this streaming linux will be uncompressed. also
> umcompressed will be the libs necessary to run the os and programs. 64 megs
> of ram would be recomended because of the following:
> all the programs are compressed on the cd in a package for that program.
> when a person wants to run a program, it is uncompressed into the ram & run
> from there.
Why would you want to keep the programs on a CD in compressed form ?
It would only save CD-ROM space, which is usually cheap and plenty.
Also, if you already have a CD to mount as root FS, you can also
boot from it, so no need for a floppy.
Rob
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