[geeks] Disk images

[Thomas Gallaway]

Lionel Peterson wrote:

>>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
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>>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.
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>Interesting - around here, the cops all have laptops in their cars...
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The laptop's here would get stolen.

>>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.
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>Uh, how will you do that? One floppy?
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>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?
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The PCMCIA card slots are a bit flaky. Some cards work, some dont. 
Having massive issues getting the Flarion-OFDM cards to work.

There are a few linux distro's that fit on 1 floppy. Have to look into a 
few ones to see if I can find one that has what I need.

-- Thomas