I have been messing around with Knoppix - a distro that runs entirely from a
CD. It actually does use a swap partition if one is available. It also uses
a compression utility (cloop?) to fit 1.5 gigs on a 700 Meg CD.
The distro is pretty advanced in its ability to detect hardware - on the
three machines I tried it on it ran well, even finding network setting
allowing me to get out on the internet without futzing.
That said, it choked on my ancient Turtle Beach MultiSound sound card, which
has to have some bin files stuck into /etc/sound and some tweaking to get
the right parameters to work. After insmoding, it did work eventually.
My point is that some hardware just won't come up on its own. A serious
block for a Lbox on Cd concept.
>hhhhmmmmm. We could call it the LBOX :). Great idea.
> If history serves as any kind of predictor the Linux
>world would start to be driven by game technology.
>That would be a terrific way to bring more hardware
>vendors into the fold, but we would need a very
>standard way for the hardware vendors to provide
>proprietary modules for their devices. I think we are
>almost there now with dynamically loadable kernel
>modules. The hangup seems to be a choice of 2d/3d
>accellerated API and a good graphics language... I
>think OpenGL would be the best (Yes, I know about
>MESA, but without a buy-in from SGI an industry
>standard would not be complete). As you describe it
>though, it seems like a really novel way to light a
>fire in the Linux community.
>
>Do you have any links, suggestion for someone to be
>able to research how to set something like this up?
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