DSL linux expert mode boot (use old PC for CD burner ?)
- From: "surf" <surfunbear@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Jan 2007 19:14:00 -0800
I have an old PC with only 32 meg of ram. It does have a writeable CD.
I was wondering if it's worth trying to set this machine up to burn
CDs. A friend of mine who is a musician might be interested in it if it
could burn CD's so he can make copies of his music. I'm not sure how
this could work however. If DSL is booted from the CD, not sure you can
remove the boot CD to burn something else. It has a floppy drive, and I
figured out how to make a bootlable floppy, but it still needs the CD
unless the floppy can boot off a pen drive ? Not sure how to do that ?
The docs I saw for pen drive boot need Windows to set up some kind of
sys file and there is no operating system as it can't boot from the
hard drive. I saw the DSL boot has all kinds of options like expert
mode where it lets you load stuff from other floppies and so on, but
I've found no real detailed docs on that. I'm not sure if I can do this
or if it is worth the trouble, but my friend is a great singer and is
trying to get a record deal. He can't afford a computer or anything and
if he could burn CD's using such a machine he may dig that, if not I
may just toss the whole thing out. I'm not sure how to burn CDs with
DSL is kb3 part of DSL ? I've never used it, but I see it's listed in
the knoppix hack book.
Also if I could get it to boot, not sure if I could set up swap space
on a pen drive or floppy, and make it do that automaticaly ? Can I just
load a shell without x windows so it can run in 32 meg ? That way you
could just burn the CDs from the shell.
It all sounds like a bizzare idea, but who knows ..
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