Just curious, what manufacturer makes this machine?
Also, if the machine's purpose is only as a network terminal with limited I/O
(like Ethernet and IDE drivers), I'd cut up the kernel from any distro--like
ditch USB, Firewire, HAM radio. It'll run faster, be more stable, and more
secure. In fact, since I'm pretty sure it's going to be on a network
(restaurant), I'd just run a netboot from the secure and locked office
machine. <digression>That way, no wait/er/resses will pull the CF out and
use it as an after-dinner mint. Not to say that those "servers" are stupid,
but a CF might be kind of tasty for a patron or two! Especially those
512meggers might be a tad too filling! </digression>
/mario
On Thursday 06 January 2005 15:04, Bill Glidden wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Christopher
> > Hotchkiss
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:38 PM
> > To: slug@nks.net
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] embedded linux - second try
> >
> > Could you possibly describe the system's purpose and its hardware in
> > more detail? There are a number of solutions that could work.
>
> The system is a Pentium-based machine, 733mhz. It has an integrated touch
> screen. 128mb RAM. I purchased a 512MB CF card to put in it. When the card
> is in there, the bios recognizes the CF card as an IDE disk drive.
>
> The main task that I see is that I have to build the Linux for this
> machine on a different machine. I don't have any other way to boot the
> kiosk machine besides the CF card. So I have to make the CF bootable, and
> install the Linux distro from my machine, then move the CF card to the
> kiosk machine and boot up.
>
>
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