Dave Dribin wrote:

> No kidding.  For a new system (including Linux), I'd recommend 256MB
> of *RAM*.  If you could fit Linux on 200MB, maybe you could install it
> on one of those CompactFLASH cards. :)

Already done it.  Without graphical desktop stuff.  RedHat 8.0 running
from 256 MB CF card plugged in as an IDE drive.  Loaded from CD-ROM
plugged in as the Slave on the same IDE bus.  Un-selected almost all
packages manually during installation from the GUI.  Worked fine.

It would probably kill the CF card quickly since swap space was also
created on the card.  Read/Write cycles to the same physical locations
on the CF card are bound to be very very high doing that.

A friend and I were just bored one night and wanted to see if it could
be done to create a "no moving parts" Linux machine out of a mini-ITX
motherboard (833 MHz VIA C3 Chipset with no fan... just a heatsink...
man do they run COOOOL) and a CF card for embedded projects.

Nate

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