Wouldnt it be possible to setup the desktop so that if I leave the floppy in, it'll boot and find the dos drive, pulling up DW.exe, or whatever filemanager you wanted. Or- if I leave the disk out, instead of being on the dos desktop, have it boot loadlin from the /linux directory on a vfat 16, and then continue on to load the desktop, even the browser and ppp driver, without ever asking me for a username and password. No shifting from the qwerty, or the numpad, or the mouse.
BasicLinux says it'll run in 4megs dram. I have lots more, but I was also impressed with how fast it came up to the bash prompt compared to the other distros. But what do you all have? I have been given crashed PCs to fix or upgrade for years, and it dont take long before you collect a cigar box full of the 1meg 30 pin SIMM, and have saved enough of the rarer 8 meg SIMM to install that on the few remaining 486 boards that still work. But BL could also do the ext2 drive. Which it treats as data storage, relying on the fat16 for the copies of its own OS Kernel... which it copies onto a ramdisk, and runs from there. So it would seem that if it got infected with sabotage software, wouldnt it be cured every time you rebooted? And who cares what the sabotage software does to the kernel it thinks is on the ext2 drive, since it dont boot off it. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
