[FADCA] Re: AX25 on DSL

[Chuck Hast]

On Apr 7, 2005 9:07 AM, Charles S Schuman <k4gbb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Last night I down loaded Linux DSL (Damned Small Linux). It is a
> Debian/Knoppix distro pruned & compressed into 50Mb. I put it on a CD
> and took it home. I played with it on a 400Mhz Athlon and was impressed.
> 
> This morning I dragged the CD back to the Lab & installed it on a 1 Geg
> HD. The process was sooo easy that it was scary! I setup SSH and went
> back to my Workstation.
> 
> Over here from MyWS I logged in, started up apt and updated the listing.
> I had a bit of a pbm identifying & installing the ax25 packages (tools &
> apps), but a 2nd cup of coffee took care of that. If I can get the FPAC
> pkg I will be one busy camper! None of the scripts are on this HD. They
> just couldn't fit ax25 support into 50Mb! A look at the HD's free space
> tells me that I have only used 170 of the 800Mb.
> 
> There are some good utilities in DSL distro... including one called
> MyDSL. This is supposed to write a CD with all your coustomizations.
> Is this what I'm looking for? HELL YES!
> 

I looked at it and was thinking along the same lines, just never got the
time to do what you have done. Perhaps you can pull some stuff off
of the DSL CD and put the ax25 and networking stuff on there. I think
it has things like small office type stuff that we do not need. That would
be a great move to do.


-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."