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On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:09:59 +0000 Neil Williams wrote: > I like the Mandriva USB key distro. It's been possible for a while but > it just takes a little extra development to make it truly usable and > elegant. Shame it still relies on BIOS access. Although, it has to be said that a large portion of modern BIOSes seem to be shipped with the ol' "Press F9 for a boot menu" option enabled, so it should be a bit easier these days. :) > I'm looking at something like that but this being Emdebian, it has to > be smaller - a lot smaller. An SD card actually, say 64 or 128Mb, > containing a complete Emdebian GUI filesystem and kernel (~50Mb > unpacked) and space enough to unpack stuff and still retain user data. > Plug it into your PDA, WindowsMobile is probably dumb enough to run > any old scripting that is on the card and hey presto, Debian. > ;-) > > (Emdebian already has a package set that can provide a full GUI > installation with kernel in the space normally reserved for the > smallest Debian network installer image. It isn't easy yet, but it's > coming along > - plus it doesn't need a network connection.) > > With the current price of such cards, it could almost be a > "give-away". That would be good. GNU/Linux on a mini-SD card (or even > microSD) - I mean those things can be 11mmx15mmx1mm or less than half > an inch square by 1/25" thick in old money. It would need a plastic > holder just to stop people losing it! > > I dare say it could run as a live-SD but I'm focusing on the 'hijack' > method. With those mini-SD cards that some phones use (mine has > 512Mb), it would be possible to do it with a phone too, once GpePhone > is available. > :-) Ooh, this sounds like fun. I have a 2GB card for my Sony Ericsson K800i - any Debian projects on that? :D > A while ago DCGLUG was looking at customised CD-Rs to give away but > the printing costs were prohibitive. USB keys are cheaper but not > that cheap and still need a BIOS change on most systems. As above. :D > SD cards can > have larger capacity than a CDR (4Gb or more) How about DVDR? Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html