[Xastir] mobile computer

N1OFZ n1ofz at arrl.net
Fri May 14 07:31:53 EDT 2004


On May 13, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
> 2nd thing:  You're going to want to mount your flash drive read-only
> most of the time.  If you don't, you'll wear out the flash.

Since it looks like I will need the other drive, what do you recommend 
I put on the flash?  First though is of course /boot.  Anything else 
make sense?

> As far as small distributions, I'd probably start with the zipslack
> distribution, which fits in 100mb, then add some of the "X" series
> of disks to get X11 on there.  You can later take off some of the
> packages you don't need in order to free up a bit more.  Zipslack
> will give you a full development environment, text-based.  Add X11
> to it and you'll have something more familiar.  I'd suggest FVWM2
> window manager for something small/fast/light.  It's what I use on
> all my computers.

This sounds good.  I also use FVWM2 on my old laptop and on my remote 
controlled machines.  Much less overhead than KDE or Gnome.

Dana




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