I am playing around with Compaq's IA-1's which are little AMD K6-based boxes with 4 USB ports, 16M of flash internally, an external compact flash slot, 32M of RAM, wireless keyboard, sound, modem and a nice 10.1" LCD. They are going for around $60 on ubid these days or $99 from tigerdirect.com and are very fun toys. I have hacked up the old Jailbait distro to run nicely from the internal 16M flash (see http://php2.chek.com/~rasmus), but this distro was not designed for this thing and it is also quite dated. Netscape 4.7 keeps leaking memory and dies and the whole thing is just too clunky.
So, my question. What would you guys suggest as the base for a small distro for this thing? I am thinking along the lines of using the internal 16M of flash for the base OS without any user apps and then using the external flash to be able to build different personalities for it. The current Jailbait with all its little partitions with cramfs filesystems is a real hassle to work with when you need to change something. There must be a better way. uclibc looks like a good starting point, obviously busybox/tinylogin and 2.4.17 with all the USB drivers since this little box has 4 USB ports and that is the primary way to hook anything up to it. Konq-embedded or Mozilla as the browser? Which can be made smaller? It would be good to squeeze X and a browser onto the base image. Anybody out there working on something similar? -Rasmus -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the message body. For more information, see <http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded>.
