[wplug] Small Linux

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Weber, Larry A assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I have developed a small product using Linux as the OS.  The OS and
| application reside on a 64Meg compact flash.  Now that the design is done, I
| need to have our manufacturing plant program blank compact flash devices.
| This is easily done in Linux but they do not want to be restricted to using
| and maintaining specific (i.e. Linux) PC's for the task, and dual booting is
| out of the question.   They want to drop in a CD and run a batch file.  All
| of their PC's are running Win9x or XP.
| 
| So I need either a program that will enable Windows to create/write/read
| ext3 filesystem (not likely).  Or, a version of Linux that will run off of a
| floppy, CD or combination floppy+CD.  All it needs to do is fdisk,
| mkfs.ext3, mount (sda1), and copy (tar) the OS (I have the embedded OS
| tarred) and copy the application (second tar ball).  I looked into Tom's
| Rootboot but it doesn't have the capabilities.  Any suggestion?

bootable cd? you might want to look into knoppix
(http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-old-en.html), 
i use this a lot as a rescue disk.

or perhaps the bootable business card 
(http://www.lnx-bbc.org/). 

i hear there is also a gnoppix 
(http://www.gnoppix.org/) 
like knoppix but it uses gnome.


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