[luau] HDD-less Linux

[MonMotha]

If you want to get started on this, feel free to drop me a line on IRC 
so you can detail your needs more clearly and we can discuss this 
(anyone is of course welcome to join in).  I'm basically always on EFNet 
and OPN (though I prefer EFNet) as MonMotha with the host 
"~monmotha at dhcp024-208-196-074.indy.rr.com" on EFNet and 
"~monmotha at gigapet.monmotha.linuxguruz.org" on OPN.  I tend to hang out 
in #linuxhelp, #iptables, and #ipv6 on EFNet and #handhelds.org, #ipv6, 
and #themes4u on OPN.

With knowledge of the hardware requirements I can probably get started 
this weekend (I have monday off).

--MonMotha

R. Scott Belford wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 06:39  PM, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
>> We could use your HDD-less Linux experience for R Scott Belford's cashier
>> conversion from Win98 to Linux too.  I hope that they can use 
>> read-only 4MB
>> IDE flash disks on each cashier in place of their hard drives.  Less 
>> moving
>> parts and heat generation, more reliable setup.  Each disk will need 
>> an SSH
>> client and simple LPD client and server.
> 
> 
> Yes.  Yes.  Yes.  I was going to respond to MonMotha's first post, but I 
> am clogging the Mission thread.  This is, however, another mission for 
> the linux community.  I work for a retail company with a buttload of 
> registers.  These cash registers use too much hardware to run win98 so 
> that they can launch a ssh program and connect to a linux box across the 
> WAN.  The linux box serves the POS (point of sale) application.  They 
> are a perfect candidate for a hdd-less install.  Warren and Charles have 
> offered some invaluable insight into this solution.  Your work, 
> MonMotha, could put us much further along.  You would be richly rewarded 
> with praise, recognition, and references.  (I have already read ahead 
> and seen that financial rewards for your project are not your desire)
> 
>>
>> Scott and Dean, could you please provide details of how your Point of 
>> Sale
>> system works?
> 
> 
> See above for a brief explanation.  This subject, my mission to open 
> source Pricebusters, merits a thread on its own.  I will soon take the 
> time to explain how things are done and how I hope we can change them.  
> The POS industry is, I think, the most ripe of all to appreciate and 
> benefit from linux.  Every store you walk in to has a need for a 
> computer to operate as its cash register and data collection center.  
> Linux can be it.  More to come.
> 
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
>> To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: [luau] A Mission For Luau
>>
>>
>>> If you need any help doing HDD-less linux distros, don't hesitate to ask
>>> me as I've been working on that quite a bit recently.  I've got a
>>> complete system with basically every networking tool you could ever want
>>> (including full ipv6 support) on one barely full floppy disk, and that's
>>> without tweaking the linking and compiler optimization for size.
>>
> 
> You will hear from me.  I need some help, and you are doing some great 
> work.  Thanks for the offer.  This is rich in possibility.
> 
>>>
>>> BTW: I am going to get working on your DMZ support Warren, been busy
>>> recently, but this weekend I have monday off and my LAN party on sat.
>>> fell through, so I might get some time.
>>>
>>> --MonMotha
>>>
>>
>>
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