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Posted: Oct. 07 2003,19:17 QUOTE
How feasable would it be to put DSL on a 80mm or standard CDRW and use the extra space to store your settings and documents?

The way I see it would be booting with toram, so the disc is no longer being accessed to run DSL itself, and then using all the leftover space on the disc as storage.  DSL doesn't have cdrecord or anything like it, does it?  How big would a burning program be?

This is a similar idea to the USB memory stick idea, only cheaper and (IMO) cooler.  Heck, if this is possible, some interesting options could come about.
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Posted: Oct. 07 2003,19:56 QUOTE
I've thought about this too :).
It would be an interesting project.  Only two drawbacks I can see:
1) Stripping and reburning CDRWs takes time.
2) (potential drawback) Burning CDRWs can be flaky, about 1 in 10 burns go wrong for me.

I am sure there are a lot more computers with CD burners than USB bootable systems.
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Posted: Oct. 07 2003,20:32 QUOTE
I don't think the time it takes should be much of a problem.

It could only write to the disc when you tell it to (or suggest you do it when you're running short on memory).

Now, the flakiness of CDRWs is indeed an issue.  Of course, if you were using this as your one-and-only method of computing or something, I imagine you would be making backups to CDRs and such frequently.  It is a fun idea though, isn't it?

Just how big is cdrecord, anyway?  if it's too big to fit snugly on the biz-card, I'd suggest leaving this idea to the hackers around here to figure out.  Unless you really want to fork this project or step up to a 80mm.
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Posted: Oct. 08 2003,19:39 QUOTE
:blues:
I installed DSL on a windows XP machine running Full VMware Workstation. The DSL booted with Zero problems in about 2 Minutes, Since VMware has virtual disk support i was able to use a virtual 2GB drive i had created to install other programs and save documents ect, ect. It's Very easy Give it a shot. Im running a 1ghz Dell Laptop with 256mb Ram, using bridged networking on my wireless card.

Peace,
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Posted: Oct. 11 2003,21:22 QUOTE
Why not just run the distribution on RAM or the CD, and save/store files and the such on a USB storage device? Unless you're always tweaking the settings of DSL, I don't see why this isn't a better idea...
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