[TriLUG] yet another theoretical question

[Charles Fischer]

If you can boot the laptop from a CF card reader, get one and a micro 
disk.  Load what you need and your good to go.  Should not even have to 
mount the laptop's drive.  I would use the micro disk and not a flash 
card.  The flash card has a limited number of write cycles.

If you cannot boot from USB, but can boot from CD/DVD then have fun rolling 
your own distro.

Good luck
Charles Fischer

At 10:21 PM 2/10/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>The topic this time: small laptops.  Very small.  Tiny.
>
>My latest project has me traveling all over the great beyond doing large 
>network migrations and I have to travel with a company standard image 
>laptop.  The word on the street is it is very unwise, and may be a career 
>limited move, to load non-standard software.
>
>Okay, so there it is.  No problem.
>
>Only I need Linux and my standard network migration toolsets of the 
>following: nmap, mysql, php, perl, ssh, telnet (darn those old routers), 
>and a few other tools, but not many.
>
>I am looking for a small, make that microscopic, laptop which has the 
>above tools plus a SSH server as well lightweight PHPable web server.
>The laptop doesn't need to be fast, just small.  As small as possible.
>I'd like to plug it into the network and have the web and SSH servers come 
>online.  Then I can ssh in and do my dirty work.
>
>The Sharp SL-C700 (http://www.dynamism.com/zaurus/) is the right size, but 
>I'm not sure it can do what I want.
>
>Luggers, what are your thoughts?
>
>..... back to a West Coast conference call with some weird-ass island in 
>the middle of the Pacific... love the follow the sun work! :)
>
>Greg
>
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