Linux at Tempe Camera; Running Linux from CD - no hard drive.

[David Mandala]

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On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 14:56, Christopher Bardin wrote:
> der.hans,
> No, Tempe Camera is not using Linux for anything that I
> know of, yet.  I should mention that I don't have anything
> to do with the various computers at work; I'm interested in
> Linux for my own use at home.  My first computer came with
> Windows Me installed.  I didn't care but my experience
> since then leads me to dislike and distrust Microsoft and
> its products.  When I looked into the alternatives to
> Windows the best choice seemed to be Linux.
> I subscribed to the PLUG development list because I was
> trying to get (Slackware version 7) Linux to run on a
> barebones computer, just in RAM before I installed the hard
> drive.  That seemed like a sporting way to learn about my
> computer and about Linux.  After all, isn't that how PCs
> were done before hard drives became cheap?  
> I assumed that Linux was modular and that running it on a
> minimal computer (CPU, RAM, some way to load the OS into
> RAM, keyboard and display) would be straightforward.   
> Apparently the Linux core was designed with the assumption
> that a hard drive, or some sort of communication with a
> hard drive such as a network connection, would always be
> part of any computer it would be used on.
> Anyway my computer boots from the CD just fine and vmlinux
> loads into the RAM but the install program on the Slackware
> CD won't let me get past the requirement to partition the
> (nonexistent) hard drive.
> I'm about to give up and install the hard drive but having
> tried to do it I think it would be a desirable thing to be
> able to run a computer with the (comprehensive) OS on a CD,
> whether or not the computer has a hard drive.
> If anyone else agrees or at least wouldn't mind giving me
> some advice on the matter, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Christopher Bardin    
> 
> 
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