Thanks gents,
Bearing in mind I only want these installations to run FG and supporting
apps.
I had a look at ssd prices today, maybe its time for a rethink. seems there
a a lot of small 32g 2.5" sata ones for around the 70usd mark. Infact there
are even cheaper ones but they seem to be a lot slower in access times. USB
thumb sticks are not so much cheaper for similar sizes
For that kind of money a small sata ssd is maybe a more sensible aproach
than trying to load a ramdisk? Just normal distro sata install but all of
hard disk issues are done away with.
I am having a play with LTSP, and have downloaded Knoppix, and now am having
a look at the re mastering information, it looks good. I will take some time
to learn a bit and play with it.
I did not consider live boot cds before, I did not see the potential in what
I passed off as a demo gimmic. But it might be the way to go if used in a
stick. I can use the PXE to work around these weird Kingston 8g sticks I
have that wont boot.
Cheers.Harry
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Martin Spott <martin.sp...@mgras.net>wrote:
> Harry Campigli wrote:
>
> > I better explain myself and my reasoning a bit. I fully agree that you
> are
> > quite correct in that the ram load up is quicker directly from the HD
> than
> > over a network, but I am aiming to do away with Hds in the FG sim boxes.
>
> At Linux installations in regular schools I'm using LTSP for the
> diskless terminals. LTSP comes almost ready-to-run right out of the
> box from "alioth", is pretty good at having the graphics set up
> properly (including OpenGL drivers) and provides the required hooks at
> bootup for copying all the FlightGear stuff into your ramdisk (just
> drop a script into /etc/ltsp/ on the client).
>
> That would probably be the route I'd take for setting up fast, diskless
> FlightGear-stations,
>
> Martin.
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