David L. Martin on Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:16:20 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Small distros II, Flash Cards


On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Edward J. Sager wrote:
> While on the subject of small distributions, has anyone seen the ability
> to boot off of a flash card, say 64MB or less, thus making small
> diskless clients like the Wyse terminal review in the techweb article or
> the Wyse web page.  I could see having a personal flash card that you
> could plug into a shared kiosk based station and then boot with your
> personal distribution/configuration.  This would have great applications
> in education and commercial environments.

A single floppy will give you enough space to boot, nfs, telnet.
Once you have those services any thing can be made to work.

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David L. Martin        <dlmarti@njcc.com>
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