[FADCA] Linux FPAC on CD - status report

[Chuck Hast]

On 9/9/05, Charles S Schuman <k4gbb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have successfully re-mastered the Knoppix AFU (version 3.7) CD and
> have been reducing the ISO package. The original ISO was approx
> 698 Mb in size. With the added ax25 packages it went over 700.
> This makes it too large for a CD!
> 
> The goal was to reduce the size of the ISO image so that it would fit
> onto a CD. I set a target of 650 to make it fit onto the old CD-RW disks
> that I am using. After dumping Open Office, Mozilla, SAMBA and a bunch
> of "other stuff" I got it down to a 586Mb image. I burned that to a CD.
> 
> The burned CD boots & contains the ax25 modules and the FPAC, Telpac and
> FBB BBS files. It should install to HD w/o any pbm, but I lost the ax25
> configuration script somewhere in the process.
> 
> Once I have a CD that boots "live" and has ALL the needed files I'll
> install it to a HD and see what havoc that will cause.
> 

YES, while clapping like a seal... This is very good news indeed.


-- 
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."