[ltp] Turning a TP into a qiet X-station

billy ball linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 12 May 2000 14:44:10 -0400 (EDT)



On Fri, 12 May 2000, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2000, billy ball wrote:
> 
> > The SuSE 6.2 'evaluation' CD-ROM (actually, a full distro) has a 'live'
> > filesystem... i've used it to boot to a Linux session... after you make a
> > link to a working XF86Config, X11 comes up and you go right into KDE...
> 
> Does it need to access the CD-ROM once in a while? Once booted I'd like
> to remove it.
> 
> > i'd also use a flash memory card for storage... how much quieter can you
> > get? (aside from the beeps when initialized)...
> 
> what would I want to store there?

oh... i wonder if anyone has thought about using RAM.... set up the boot
disk to create execute everything from RAM?



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