[ale] does anyone know of a linux distro small enough to fit on a 64 meg usb Compact Flash?
Preston Boyington
PBoyington at polyengineering.com
Wed Sep 22 14:52:34 EDT 2004
Van Loggins wrote:
> 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.
Maybe try Featherlinux? or maybe a Morphix mini-cd.
> 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.
I did something similar with a Virgin Connect using Peanut Linux a couple of years ago. Fun project.
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