On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Sylvain PEREZ wrote:
> What I personnaly did is to install a full (but light) Windows95 system on
> an IomegaZip 100 disquette, plus the regular Prime95 v19.
>
> So now I only need a motherboard, an internal zip drive and some little
> parts to make a Prime Machine. You have to set the BIOS to boot on Zip (or
> LS120).
>
> It works perfectly, even if it may be sometimes tricky to make a Zip a
> system drive (and the only drive of the machine).
>
> It's also easy for communicating with PrimeNet : shutdown your "Zip"
> Windows, take the Zip disquette, put it on your machine with a modem or so,
> actualize your Prime data and put the Zip disquette back to its machine,
> boot. This can be done every 3 month or so.
>
> Sylvain Perez
> The guy who's late updating the french Gimps site ...
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Kevin Sexton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Date: mercredi 26 janvier 2000 07:01
> A: Mersenne List
> Objet: Mersenne: small OS setup for mprime
>
> Did anyone figure out a simple way to run mprime from a
> floppy, or small partition? I want to search for primes on a
> second computer, but the total hard drive space is 650MB,
> and I have and want to keep dos, and don't have windows of
> any kind installed.
> If I figure out how to install it I will add an LS-120
> drive.
I managed to fit an extremely limited Linux system together with sprime
onto a floppy that boots, then unpacks everything into a ramdisk.
That was for the extreme of doing a diskless mprime machine, and I never
did solve the problem of saving the state without an nfs server, though it
might be possible to solve using a samba share for the temp files.
--
Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, how-
ever improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the
possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking
hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped
like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up.
Commander Vimes on detectoring. Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
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