On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:55:04PM -0500, John R. Campbell wrote: > But there's no real reason to make it a linux-booting CD;
Sure there is. It is much easier to provide a complete user experience with this kind of control over the system, and there are many fewer things that can go wrong. If the goal is to provide something which works everywhere, without conflicts with any existing software, requiring zero support, it is the way to go. It doesn't even matter what operating system (if any!) the user has installed; they will always get the same experience. > If DVD images (being 4.7GB in size) can be tolerated given the > number of such drives becoming "standard" then a much larger set > of installed images becomes possible. With bzip2 compression, it should be possible to fit a useful set of demo images on a normal CD-ROM. > So, we're talking a CD that has the Hercules emulator on it > (with an x86 linux tree as well) made to autostart in the > Windows environment with all the neat-and-keen tools that > the MVS 3.8 Tur(n)Key used to show the way. Why would you have an x86 linux tree for a CD intended to autostart in a Windows environment? -- - mdz
