That was the thinking for "version two" -- boot from CF, start everything on RAM disk. Haven't gotten that far yet... and the project we needed the thing for we decided not to finish... at least for the moment... Nate Jake Anderson wrote: >yeah you really should kill the swap file it would hit the 10k limit *real* >fast i think >perhaps it may be better to get it to run from a ramdrive if you can? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Nate Duehr" >To: >Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:19 PM >Subject: Re: [OT]:Linux for the Resource Limited (was a lot of other stuff) > > > > >>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 >> >> -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.