[Xastir] New tricks for Linux / XASTIR was: knoppix qemu

[John Kraus]

OOPs

I sent this to Curt rather than the list so here it is.

Actually what I would like to see is a set of either boot floppies and / or 
cdrom that does nothing more than make a default USB access drive as ROOT 
with the kernel running in a separate RAMDISK.

With a boot disk in hand and a USB 2.0 external drive you would be good to 
go with an easily modified system.

While the speed would not be up to the level of an internal drive it should 
be usable.

Even if you did not run from the USB drive it would be a handy device to 
install from.

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Curt noted that a write issue could exist with a flash based device. Below 
is a clarification.
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I was thinking of the actual USB hard drives.  I have a 40 GB firefly that 
can run from most ports as is but has an included PS2 cable with feed 
through that can grab power form the PS2 port.