Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-19 Thread Jim Thompson
On Sep 19, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Eric Hattemer wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: The Land Cruiser (which will eventually be a hybrid) has a mini-itx computer mounted in it. Its the box on the right in this (warning: quite large) photo http://www.smallworks.com/~jim/LandCruiser/P8280034.JPG Two ques

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-19 Thread Eric Hattemer
Jim Thompson wrote: > > The Land Cruiser (which will eventually be a hybrid) has a mini-itx > computer mounted in it. Its the box on the right in this (warning: > quite large) photo > http://www.smallworks.com/~jim/LandCruiser/P8280034.JPG > Two questions: First, do you mean you are buying a n

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-19 Thread Jim Thompson
On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Brian Chee wrote: The PODS project . . . now going to a Mini-ITX motherboard to create embedded systems with no moving parts. Interesting info. The mini-itx always fascinates me. Recently, VIA has begun selling its C7- and C7-

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-19 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Brian Chee wrote: The PODS project . . . now going to a Mini-ITX motherboard to create embedded systems with no moving parts. Interesting info. The mini-itx always fascinates me. Recently, VIA has begun selling its C7- and C7-M series CPUs, each of which comprises an x86 processor and an en

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-19 Thread Jim Thompson
On Sep 19, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Brian Chee wrote: I should also point out that the old "Linux Router Project" has been superceded by efforts off knoppix and others to create "small" distros that are fully capable of booting from USB/CF/etc in support of new bios features like those found in the

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-19 Thread Brian Chee
I should also point out that the old "Linux Router Project" has been superceded by efforts off knoppix and others to create "small" distros that are fully capable of booting from USB/CF/etc in support of new bios features like those found in the Mini-ATX/ITX motherboards. The PODS project (www.pod

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-18 Thread Jim Thompson
Oh, I'd probably look at this: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6805529669.html http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net/ or this: http://slax.linux-live.org/ or this: http://www.fingergear.com/ or this: http://linuxgazette.net/113/kapil.html So, its been done before, and now you can probably 'demo' i

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-18 Thread Jim Thompson
On Sep 18, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Andrew Maddox wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Charles Lockhart wrote: Are you looking for something that would boot from bios, or boot from an installed bootloader? I think it would need to boot from BIOS, so the laptops would have to support that. Gotta check

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-18 Thread Andrew Maddox
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Charles Lockhart wrote: Are you looking for something that would boot from bios, or boot from an installed bootloader? I think it would need to boot from BIOS, so the laptops would have to support that. Gotta check that with the potential business partners. Doing it fro

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-18 Thread Charles Lockhart
Are you looking for something that would boot from bios, or boot from an installed bootloader? What USB support is there for such a thing in your standard bios? How about in grub? When I tried doing installing Centos to a usb drive and then using it as a portable os, I stopped when I realize

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-18 Thread Tim Newsham
So, not so hypothetically speaking, if you were going to customize a Linux kernel-based OS distro to run on, oh, let's say a 512MB or 1GB USB device of some sort, and wanted to add onto that the libraries and drivers you'd need to run a user-friendly desktop and a basic suite of office applicati

[LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-18 Thread Andrew Maddox
So, not so hypothetically speaking, if you were going to customize a Linux kernel-based OS distro to run on, oh, let's say a 512MB or 1GB USB device of some sort, and wanted to add onto that the libraries and drivers you'd need to run a user-friendly desktop and a basic suite of office applicat