[luau] HDD-less Linux

[R. Scott Belford]

I have an interest, but I have had to wait for school to end to take on 
the project.  In short, I have about 50, soon to be 70, point of sale 
win98 workstations running Vandyke's CRT to telnet to a linux server 
hosting the POS (in this industry the acronym is for point of sale, not 
the often appropriate piece of sh__ :-) ) application.  I want these 
machines to become thin linux clients.  I am at the beginning of the 
research, but I sure would like to keep the hardware and just use the 
floppy.  I really am very interested in working with you to 
develop/refine this.  I will, over the course of the summer and through 
the next year , be Open Sourcing as much of Pricebusters, a local 
retailer, as is possible.  Success with this floppy will be huge.  The 
POS company, based in Tennessee, www.synchronics.com, likely has a 
dealer and customers in your neck of the woods.  This refinement could 
lead to some opportunities for you.  We would certainly serve as a proud 
reference.  More to come on this one, I am just emerging from the 
oppressive shroud of the semester.

scott


On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 06:31 PM, MonMotha wrote:

> What happened to this anyway?  Is anyone still interested in me making 
> these bootdisks?
>
> --MonMotha
>
> Dustin Cross wrote:
>> I am interested!  What kernel are you using?  What tools do you have 
>> on the
>> disk?  SSH?  IPtables?
>> Dusty
>>> 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.
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