Hello Steven - >At 11:33 AM 8/27/02 +0000, you wrote: [...] >> When you "obsolete some" what would you envision as the new >> minimum hardware platform required? > >The larger libraries leave me with two options: >(1) increase size of ramdisk -or- >(2) remove some functionality from ramdisk version > >Since the larger kernel by itself is enough to raise the >8mb RAM requirement, I might as well go all the way to 12mb, >which will allow for a slighty larger ramdisk. Of course, >once I get down to it, I may find that I can achieve a big >jump in functionality (eg. GUI) by going to 16mb.
Are these 8, 12, 16meg referring to ramdisk sizes or total installed memory for the machine being used? >There is, however, one cloud on the horizon. As more and >more win9x machines are "upgraded" to winXP, there are fewer >and fewer users who can execute loadlin.exe. Currently, I >get around this by providing a floppy option for such users. >However, this relies on baslinux.gz fitting on a single >floppy. Unless I can get BL2 on a single floppy (or think >of some other way to provide access to winXP users), it may >not be worth going through the effort of producing BL2. For WinXP users I would suggest a bootable CD image they can burn onto a CD and boot from that? If they have emough oomph for WinXP they probably have CD capabiities too? Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost Stories, poems, music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
