Kaushik Ghose wrote: > > Hey, > Besides the intrinsic interest of playing withthe memory, this line caught > my attention : > > On 3 Apr 2003, Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > > > > My other (diskless) box has only 32Mb RAM, so even MPlayer gets killed by > > > the kernel sometimes. But with slram.o, I could map 32Mb from the 64Mb memory > > > of the Geforce2 :) > > diskless linux system ! > > And I looked and there is a howto, > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.html > > I have a shell lying around after my athlon migration, may be.... > > -kg
Why only diskless: diskless, kbd-less, monitorless and still running Linux and doing something useful. How's that? I have this old 486 box with two ethernet cards and a floppy drive. A 3.5" floppy disk holds _all_ the Linux that is required in order to run this box as a router -- which is a device that interfaces two or more networks. In my case, I have a small private network in my office cubicle, consisting of Pentium II and older machines. Through this router I connect my private network to the wider world of our Institute's LAN (which, again, connects to the even wider world of the Internet through other routers). From home I connect via modem (using PPP) to this black-box (which also acts as a PPP server for me) and so can access the Internet. For details of this particular micro distribution of Linux, see: http://www.linuxrouter.org/ - Manas Laha -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
