[plug] Mini-ITX Systems...

[Trevor Phillips]

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 17:42, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> Does anybody on list know of an "internal compression" system for
> binaries for linux? You know, you run a program over a binary and it
> wraps the original in a simple program that decompresses the real binary
> into memory? Or is that just not worth it when you can use gzip directly
> from a shell script?

I'd prefer to just see decent Compressed Filesystems under Linux. The only 
well-supported one seems to be ISOs, where you create an ISO, compress it, 
and mount it - but that's read-only.

> Cool. Is it possible to boot most desktops off a CF reader? If so, what
> kind - pcmcia (via pci expansion), USB, or what? It'd be _very_ nice for
> thin clients to have an internal CF card.

It depends how you have your CF interfaced. You can get CF/IDE adapters, which 
make the CompactFlash just seem like an ordinary IDE drive, and AFAIK, any OS 
should be able to boot off that, since all it sees is an IDE drive.

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