Chris Beggy on Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:31:11 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Small distros II, Flash Cards


David L. Martin wrote:
> 
> 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.

This is old now, but a great small system, in several
senses of the word, is described at:

  http://wearables.stanford.edu/

SunDisk flash is used.

Chris

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