On 20 August 2012 09:08, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Question: any ideas on a simple OS that would fit in a USB and have the > basic MSP toolchain? ... > They have access to standard PCs, and it would be neat they > could run their own system on a USB, so each has his own files, etc. > > Any suggestions? > My level is noob-ish. I guess I could design my own distro off Puppy or > something, but I really do not know how. If y'all could point me to > something out there that I'd simply download and copy to a USB fob...
There must be easy ways to generate live images from any real Linux distribution these days. Or pick an existing one and rebuild it to contain an extra package. I haven't tried, though. CD images can also usually be turned into USB images. Quickly looking around, http://live.debian.net should work, for example. http://live.debian.net/manual/html/live-manual/toc.en.html There's tutorial examples in the manual for creating custom images. If someone bothered to hack together a live image to boot from USB or in a virtual machine, it could be published as a demo or portable environment. It might even be feasible to have a few configurations, e.g. one with a clean simple wm, editor and toolchain and another with full desktop env, web browser and every piece of software that someone will suggest to be added. And Debian has nice 430 toolchain packages available, I believe ;) Since there seem to be a million useless Knoppix forks, that might be another thing to look at. Now, actually flashing any particular microcontroller off such a thing might be tricky since it requires the hardware drivers to work on any given machine as well. I think that with a modern modular Linux and mspdebug, at least some options (like Launchpad) would be quite doable. You could also throw in a full load of datasheets, examples and appnotes to pad the image to a suitable size, but there might be licensing issues with distributing them like that. Alternatively, it should be easy to download and place them in a given (home) dir on the device after the image has been written. -- I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right thing with post formatting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
