With SlimCD running from the slimline CD drive, the disk would be accessed periodically requiring the CD drive to spin up and in a lounge situation this would be very noticeable, so the CD drive also had to go!
try running it using "dsl toram" from the boot prompt. It should then be completely copied to the RAM - no need to access the CD any more.
I tried configuring the root partition as a read-only filesystem but this doesn't seem possible with my limited skills, so I gave up on that idea.
Don't try to do this yourself. Try a "frugal" installation instead. You'll find plenty of information about it on DLS's web site. This will basically copy the CD image to your harddisk, leaving it completely read-only.
But beware: this does format your harddisk hda!
I thought about using an IDE-to-Compact Flash adapter on which to install the root filesystem but a) didn't have time to obtain one and b) not sure if CF would be suitable for the root filesystem as it would be hosting /tmp and could conceivably "wear out".
That's exactly the setup I had in mind with SlimCD: with the frugal installation only the cd image will be read from the CF card. Everything else is kept in RAM (yes, /home, /tmp et al.!). No wearing out of the CF card.
Also, it still would be mounted read-write and potentially suffer from filesystem errors when the system is not shutdown cleanly.
I usually even mount the music collection read-only. This allows for really careless shutdowns :-)
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