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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:55:24 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, David Moberg wrote:

IIRC, to log into the DSL user account it is:

Username: damnsmall
Password: damnsmall

I get logged in automatically as the DSL user. What I could not do was 'su', which I think requires knowing the password for 'root'.


If we can hotswap floppy disk to DVD-ROM drive, I can boot with 2-floppy BL2 (BL3 won't boot at all), then copy over to it a bunch of modules via floppy disk, and insmod parport parport_pc scsi_mod sd_mod imm and loop, and mount the zip disk and fs.img (via loop) and chroot to the parport drive. Maybe I could even make a script to do this. Then I can (after 2-4 min wait) start mplayer and try to play a DVD, once I figure out if the sound chip (ES something or other, says DSL) is supported by OSS.

This might not be faster than playing the DVD on a player where you have to wait and keep hitting the play button to get through the previews and warnings, but it is more interesting.


Booting from 2 floppies is no slower than booting from a CD that dumps you into a GUI that you have to get back out of, but all those modules slow things down and DSL might need only imm and loop insmodded. I could try making a modified BL2 floppy set with the modules automatically insmodded.

What else might one use hard-drive-less 500MHz 320MB RAM laptop computer for? It takes rather a long time to load anything from zip disk.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org




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