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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer
- From: Theo Perry <theo.perry AT xtra.co.nz>
- To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:08:15 +1200
Sindi,
I think you have to type "sudo su" to work as root in DSL.
Theo
sindi keesan wrote:
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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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
David Moberg, 06/28/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
sindi keesan, 06/28/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
Theo Perry, 06/28/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
James Miller, 06/29/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
sindi keesan, 06/29/2005
- Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer, Anthony Albert, 06/29/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
sindi keesan, 06/29/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
James Miller, 06/29/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
Theo Perry, 06/28/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
David Moberg, 06/29/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
sindi keesan, 06/29/2005
- Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer, James Miller, 06/29/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
sindi keesan, 06/29/2005
- Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer, David Moberg, 06/29/2005
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Re: [BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer,
sindi keesan, 06/28/2005
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