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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:29:14 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: >>I'm sure it's not too hard. If one had enough money to spend, a 40MB >>drive might be able to have X and Emacs (MAYBE), and you >>could boot with a boot disk and use the mount root=/dev/whatever >>command, or boot from the hard drive, and mount the >>Flash card under /USR. > >40 MB is more than plenty for X, Emacs, and other basic utilities. >Remember that 40 MB was a respectably sized disk drive when those >programs were written. But there are some problems with doing things >so simply: > 1) If the root is on the hard disk, it still seems likely to spin > up every now and then. So it's probably best to have the root > on the flash card. > 2) If /usr is on the flash card, a lot of the files and directories > there must be replaced by symlinks pointing to the hard disk. > 3) If the hard disk is mounted as a file system, I still fear that > it might spin up unnecessarily sometimes. So it may be necessary > to automount it by NFS and unmount it when not in use. > >But all of this should be doable with some effort. > >Somewhat harder is the case with the 10 MB flash card, which is >not really enough for the most common system and user files. >For that case, the idea of putting system files into a ramdisk >and user files on the flash card sounds doable, but more work. > >It's kind of interesting to see what happens to OS configuration >when ram is cheaper than "disk" space. > I think that I might be willing to try it out, and put the hibernation file on another partition. So, how can I get a Slackware kernel with APM, PCMCIA, and ESS688 support, where I DON'T have to compile it myself? I want X, some of the terminal games (not all), XLock, and "maybe" XEmacs. I don't really know much about Emacs in general, except that it is apparently a must-have program for UNIX users. Paul