[plug] Mini-ITX Systems...

[Trevor Phillips]

On Monday 16 September 2002 12:36, Brad Campbell wrote:
>
> I have the Mini-ITX Spec here, were going to design our own PSU for them
> as they have a MAX power requirement of 60W and we want a reliable 10-32v
> power input.

Cool!!
I'd want a little more power if it's to drive things like CD-ROM drives. ^_^

> Umm, I've not used Knoppix but I have used HPA's Rescue CD, and the flash
> card is heaps quicker as the CD drive has a very slow seek. Flash seek is
> instant, but transfer rate is not quick. Bonus is that you can get 512MB
> and Gig sized cards if you take out a sizeable bank loan :p)

*nod*
Knoppix includes about 1.8Gig of stuff on a compressed ISO, and boots quite 
fast, considering it's off CD.
Big flash cards are still bloody expensive. I'm trying to keep my project on 
the cheap side. ^_^

> > How fast would it be before X? ie; for a text only session?
>
> Err.. Well because the entire system is in RAM, X takes about 1 second
> to start up, so not much quicker really. (This is on a 1Ghz Celeron)

So you expand the card drive into a RAM disk then? (Rather than just mount the 
compressed drive image directly off the Flash)

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