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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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
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