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[ale] does anyone know of a linux distro small enough to fit on a 64 meg usb Compact Flash?
- Subject: [ale] does anyone know of a linux distro small enough to fit on a 64 meg usb Compact Flash?
- From: vloggins at turbocorp.com (Van Loggins)
- Date: Thu Sep 23 09:50:16 2004
- In-reply-to: <A88B2F7C91000D41A5C09550ABF5C39B04448A@poly_propylene.corp.polyengineering.com>
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Thanks to everyone for all of the great suggestions about this little
project of mine.
I wound up using feather Linux on it, but with one minor change.
I removed the compact flash to ide adapter and I used a ide 40 pin to
laptop hard drive adapter and I mounted a 4 gig laptop hard drive in the
case.
I figured this would be better since I already had these parts rather
than buying a bigger flash card. I'm sure I will find a use for the CD
to ide adapter later on. :)
feather runs very fast on this set up. I think this will make a very
nice MP3 jukebox.
Thanks again
Preston Boyington wrote:
>Van Loggins wrote:
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>>I had downloaded DamnSmallLinux (DSL) 0.7.3 but it errors out when I
>>attempt to boot it up from a USB CD-RW drive to install it on the
>>Compact Flash Drive. I booted the system up with the Cebits
>>LinuxDefender version of Knoppix and was able to fdisk the
>>drive so I am
>>thinking that the problem is with how the guys at DSL have modified
>>their version of Knoppix.
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>Maybe try Featherlinux? or maybe a Morphix mini-cd.
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>>I'm playing around with a Mini-ITX Via C3 800 MHz thin client
>>device and
>>I want to replace the contents of the Compact Flashdisk that it boots
>>off of with Linux. Hopefully this will give me the ability to
>>tweak and
>>configure it to suit my needs.
>>
>>
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>I did something similar with a Virgin Connect using Peanut Linux a couple of years ago. Fun project.
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