[luau] Sherwin-Williams to use Linux Cash Registers

[MonMotha]

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>>3) What kind of basic utils will you want?  I use busybox, so you can 
>>check out their site as to what is available, but I can also compile 
>>some stuff on my own (though space is limited of course) provided the 
>>app can be compiled against uClibc fairly easily.
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> We were thinking about using read-only IDE flash disks for these Linux
> cash registers.  Far more reliable than floppies, and probably more
> reliable than hard drives because there are no moving parts.  (Some of
> the cash register locations had problems with overheatig.)  We can buy
> sizes anywhere between 4MB-several GB so there is a lot of flexibility
> in what we can do.  We need to figure out what size of smallest flash
> disks we would need to buy without detracting from effectiveness.  The
> flash disks should also leave some room to grow should we think of new
> useful features to add to the system later. 
>  

I'm having trouble fitting everythign in a 1.5MB floppy image (600k 
kernels don't help here...), and SSH (even a stripped down one) is 
putting me over by about 100k.  I can go for 4MB and that *should* give 
me sufficient space to do whatever I need (including the tinyX server) 
if I stick with uClibc.  However, if I can go up to 32MB space (I can 
compress this if I have to in order to get it down to size, but that 
shouldn't be a problem, they do this on 16MB iPaqs after all :), I can 
easily get glibc on there, eliminating the need to carefully go about 
choosing apps that are compatibile with the stripped down libc.  I 
wouldn't even have to use busybox then as space wouldn't be nearly a 
concern (did you know busybox statically linked to uclibc can fit a 
mostly functional linux system into under 600k?).

I'm also making some "demo disks" that do the NFS root fs and tftp 
loading an image into a ramdisk that are coming along nicely.

--MonMotha