...
>I have been messing around with Knoppix - a distro that runs
>entirely from a CD. It actually does use a swap partition if one is
>available. It also uses a compression utility (cloop?) to fit 1.5
>gigs on a 700 Meg CD.
I've never heard of either, but then again, I don't go looking for
this stuff. Sounds cool.
>The distro is pretty advanced in its ability to detect hardware - on
>the three machines I tried it on it ran well, even finding network
>setting allowing me to get out on the internet without futzing.
>
>That said, it choked on my ancient Turtle Beach MultiSound sound
>card, which has to have some bin files stuck into /etc/sound and
>some tweaking to get the right parameters to work. After insmoding,
>it did work eventually.
>
>My point is that some hardware just won't come up on its own. A
>serious block for a Lbox on Cd concept.
About going on the Internet, does it allow you to get there to
acquire things to get the machine running? For example, if your
sound card doesn't detect, but it tries like the dickens to detect it
and possibly download modules from the net, maybe then it'll prompt
you for manual intervention with a log of what it attempted and some
suggestions? I figure if Windows 98SE can detect things and
configure it, and for what it can't, lets the user know in plain
sight, I think Linux can do the same. Eventually, maybe with some
phone tech support or remote administration support (whhoo aah is
*nix really good at this!) paid or included, the system would become
operational. Of course, there are simply many things to the fault of
vendors that are not supported with hardware drivers or winmodem
beasts.
/mario
>
>>hhhhmmmmm. We could call it the LBOX :). Great idea.
>> If history serves as any kind of predictor the Linux
>>world would start to be driven by game technology.
>>That would be a terrific way to bring more hardware
>>vendors into the fold, but we would need a very
>>standard way for the hardware vendors to provide
>>proprietary modules for their devices. I think we are
>>almost there now with dynamically loadable kernel
>>modules. The hangup seems to be a choice of 2d/3d
>>accellerated API and a good graphics language... I
>>think OpenGL would be the best (Yes, I know about
>>MESA, but without a buy-in from SGI an industry
>>standard would not be complete). As you describe it
>>though, it seems like a really novel way to light a
>>fire in the Linux community.
>>
>>Do you have any links, suggestion for someone to be
>>able to research how to set something like this up?
>
>
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