[FADCA] Re: AX25 on DSL

[Chuck Hast]

On Apr 7, 2005 9:36 AM, Charles S Schuman <k4gbb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Chuck Hast wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> If I can drag all the AX25/FPAC stuff over to this HD & get it working
> I'll have the reduced system I was looking to create from AFU. The task
> then would only involve writing the MyDSL system to CD. We really don't
> care if the image exceeds 50Mb. My goal is to fit it onto a 500Mb HD.
> That combined w/ a 150 - 200Mb Swap file will make things easier on the
> resources.

The smaller the better, but at 500m that is still a big step and is a whole lot
better than a full distro...

> 
> I did some research on making a bootable Linux CD. It gave me a
> headache! The process involves all the stuff that it takes to Boot,
> create a RamDisk, unpack the Linux files & copy them to RAM and then
> transfer the boot process to the RamDrive. The left eye is looking at
> the right eye to see if it understood any of that! ;-)

I think there are some tools that automate most of that. You should join
the Sun Coast Linux Users Group as there are are bunch of people in
there who can help you with that one. Here is the address.
http://www.suncoastlug.org/

That is where I got a lot of my generic help when I was trying to get mine
going.


-- 
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."