I ordered one of those fancy fanless (nice and quiet and energy efficient) Nano-ITX Motherboards (getting it this week). The system's only drive will be an external 2.5" USB HDD. I am thinking of installing SlimCD on it due to space/performance concerns (ie. 800mhz processor and 512mb ram).
When I created SlimCD I wanted a small Linux installation capable of being run from compact flash or USB. My target system was a mini itx 600MHz box. Your plan is absolutely feasible.
I don't know about booting from the external disk, though. This should imho be possible, but I lack any experience. Have you considered searching the forum at damnsmalllinux.org?
Do you think this will work? I was hoping for a USB Pendrive install but to no avail it's not supported yet.
If you can't boot your machine from a USB pendrive, then it possibly won't with an external disk, neither. This must be supported by the machine's bios.
Is there no internal storage in your machine? -- Michael ----------------------------------------------------------- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
