[Coco] 2gig CF card killed

[Diego Barizo]

You can try Puppylinux. It's designed to run from a CF card.
http://puppylinux.com/
I don't remember for sure which wi-fi drivers come with ti, but there 
are plenty.

P.S.
In linux, it's LS, not DIR


Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 10:24 AM 3/22/2008, you wrote:
>
>> The main reason to use CF in place of a hard drive is for embedded
>> systems, network appliances, or some other use where you want mass
>> storage that needs to be small, energy efficient, and/or resistant to
>> vibration.  Something like the aforementioned Linux distros will run
>> without swap, given enough RAM, or will make swap an option that the
>> user can switch on when necessary.  These OSes also use all sorts of
>> cool filesystem tricks so they can overlay changes to what would
>> ordinarily be a read-only medium on a RAMdisk, and then save the changes
>> to writable non-volatile storage on shutdown.
>
>
> Here's my situation: My Compaq IA-1 has Midori Linux installed in the 
> 16mb internal memory.  MSN Companion was erased in the process.  So, 
> when no CF card is plugged in, the IA-1 boots into Linux.  If a 
> bootable CF card is inserted, the IA tries to boot it.
>
> Do you think Fedora 8 would install to a 2gig CF?  I could trim a lot 
> of the fat from the DVD install, no problem.  What I want to do is run 
> Fedora on the IA-1 since Fedora 8 has the zd1211 driver built in and I 
> can use my Belkin USB Wireless G adaptor to access the network and 
> web.  I'd like to tell Fedora at some point to use the IA-1's internal 
> 16mb for the swap, which means this will have to be done after the CF 
> card is moved over to the IA-1 after Fedora was installed to it from 
> another PC, but this is from a semi-newbie view.
>
> If Fedora is too resource hungy, what other small build that can use 
> 16mb of memory is there that has the zd1211 driver already there?  
> Midori may even have it but I wouldn't know because no commands at all 
> work from the command prompt box they put in there.  Even "dir" 
> doesn't work.  Only "cd" works as far as I have had time to notice.
>
> I just want my IA-1 system to run at least one kind of CoCo 3 emulator 
> AND browse the web using the Belkin USB wireless adaptor like how I do 
> from Fedora on another PC.  The IA-1 already can run the CoCo 
> emulators if the CF card is formatted to have MS-DOS on it, but I want 
> to move beyond that now.
>
> Windows 98SE is looking like it's going to lock up every time I get a 
> good ways into the install on the IA-1 when it's checking for Plug and 
> Play devices.  It can sit there for a whole day and never break the 
> loop.  It looks like Linux is my best bet.
>
>
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