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Let's get Ish started on some Red Hat

No idea on distros or software -- I had to abandon SuSE, on this system at least, because the damned installer wouldn't recognize my onboard hard drives. Instead, it formatted and installed to my external, which (it turns out) isn't bootable, after all. Damnedest thing -- my BIOS will support booting to a USB flash drive, or an external USB CD-ROM -- but not to an external hard drive.

Personally, I plan to wait on getting Linux until I complete my first homebuilt PC. I'll probably try my hand at throwing together a Linux-based Media Center, just something to plug a surround-sound setup into. I just hope I can find something that'll play AV files in the various formats they come in. Burning DVDs has revealed itself to be a pain in the ass, lately, and I'd rather just port something over in the USB flash drive, pull it up and set it in motion.
 
The Question said:
my BIOS will support booting to a USB flash drive, or an external USB CD-ROM -- but not to an external hard drive.
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Man, that's wacky. My shit won't boot to anything but a firewire drive, but every firewire external I've ever tried works, at least. That's weird.

That's an interesting point, though. How fast would a system boot on a flash drive? No mechanical parts and all... that would be pretty cool. I'm personally excited to see a day when mechanical drives are a thing of the past. I've recovered gigs and gigs of customer's data from semi-failed drives, and the data I couldn't recover was either lost or cost thousands of dollars to recover.

I am in the same boat right about now with the homebuilt system. It will be a while before I drum up the cash, but it's a goal. We'll have to start a homegrown CPU thread soon.
 
Ishcabittle said:
Man, that's wacky. My shit won't boot to anything but a firewire drive, but every firewire external I've ever tried works, at least. That's weird.

That's an interesting point, though. How fast would a system boot on a flash drive? No mechanical parts and all... that would be pretty cool. I'm personally excited to see a day when mechanical drives are a thing of the past. I've recovered gigs and gigs of customer's data from semi-failed drives, and the data I couldn't recover was either lost or cost thousands of dollars to recover.

I am in the same boat right about now with the homebuilt system. It will be a while before I drum up the cash, but it's a goal. We'll have to start a homegrown CPU thread soon.
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The problem would be finding a flash drive with sufficient capacity to install an OS onto. So far, the highest-capacity USB flash drives I've seen have only hauled about 5Gb. Is that enough room for a Linux distro (with KDE) and a modest Documents folder?
 
I think so, lemmy check...

...yeah, apparently it's only about 2.2 GB for a typical KDE Linux install... I checked with kubuntu.

So yeah... that would work. Interesting.
 
^^Gawd, imagine the fun you could have with that at the library... jack the BIOS to boot from your USB flash drive, and alla sudden all their kiosk and internet lockouts go bye-bye.
 
Funny thing...

...I need to try some VNC software for a linux box. I'm finding that I leave the XP drive running most often just because I can remote controll the sucker from upstairs.

I bet you there's distro of Chicken of the VNC out there for linux. I just wish there was such a thing as versiontracker.com for linux. Ho hum.

Still Ubuntu is cool, cool, cool. It's free and it does the job.
 
Of course they don't say it officially, but the idea is you walk into an internet cafe or something, plug in your media, and hijack the computer.

I need to try that sometime.
 
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