On Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:32, krishnakant Mane wrote: > ok 64 mb nopix on a flash card or usb stick is good enough. but I > need to do the following.
U mis understood. There is no 64 mb knoppix. But u could customize knoppix easily. > 1. customise the distro to lonch my custom menu driven application > instead of standard bash. does your app require X or is it CLI?. If X then what wm? suggest FVWM or XFCE. > 2. put my own kernel instead of the one coming with it. > I don't want heavy modules and other softwares that may be coming > with nopix. U get rid of unwanted modules by simply recompiling the kernel. > and thirdly, I need to put speach synthesizer like > festival. the card is 512 mb so no problem on that. > will I be able to do all this with that nopix 64 mb distro? > and I came across a bootloader called extlinux > may be that will help me some how. Not needed actually. If this is a regular thing u can keep one usb for creating grub bootable usb as follows: plugin bootable usb. Switch on machine when the led on usb starts flickiring plug in new usb (which u have preformatted to the same fs as the first usb and copied /boot/grub). when the grub menu shows up type c. At the grub prompt root (fd1) setup (fd1). -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
