[geeks] Disk images

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Atom <rescue at port11.net>
> Date: 2005/03/15 Tue PM 09:15:48 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Disk images

> I will try the network thing next. Right now the machines are very 
> limited. They are older K6-400's rugged trunk-mount computers for 
> policecars.

Interesting - around here, the cops all have laptops in their cars...
 
> They don't have anything besides serial and pcmcia and a floppy drive. 
> So I will need to build a linux distro that fits on one floppy and have 
> drivers for 10/100 pcmcia nic and wifi.

Uh, how will you do that? One floppy?

Why not Knoppix on a 1 Gig PCMCIA card? Is PCMCIA CD-ROM drive an option? Do these have HDs inside, or is the PCMCIA slot the mass storage device for the system?