The Audiopint project does this - details at audiopint.org if you're interested. We have a stripped-down Ubuntu image that you can download - it can be written to a USB flash drive, which the system boots from. -David
On Jan 4, 2008 11:49 AM, Olivier Heinry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:28:10 +0100, > Peter Plessas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > * Derek Holzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-01 22:18]: > > > Either way could work, the ramdisk is a particularly good idea. Unless > > > the installation is networked, there's not too much need for logfiles > in > > > the classic server or multiuser environment sort of sense. You could > > > probably also just disable to logging daemon by removing it from the > > > boot scripts using rc-update (on Gentoo at least, or with another > > > distro-specific equivalent). I imagine that logging would simply just > > > fail quietly if the partition were read-only... I mean, what would log > > > the fact that the logs weren't logging? ;-) > > > > Right, that's a nice point in particular! Thanks for the hints! > > > > You may also use Pure:Dyne, boot from CD, nest to a USB CF media. No HD > needed. > > If you have lots of RAM available and really need to write something, just > use /dev/shm which is a kind of advanced RAM disk available on most Linux > distros. Use a bash script to copy video/audio files & patches from the > CD/DVD to /dev/shm in RAM at startup and symlink them to your /home or /tmp > > ++ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- MIT Media Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/
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