A computer with no HDD

[Him]

Well, since this rig would only be for flat out performacne, and prolly not alot of read/write cycles, that would be great.

most pen drives still arent even a gig yet. And the oens that are, cost some serious dough. You think one of those would be big enough for a FS and an OS? We would eventually need to put windows on there, just for comparison reasons with other OCers.

 

[horndude]

good luck with windows, windows doesnt support this kind of thing at all

windows OS is over 2GB without any extra apps for windowsXP, you might get away with a hacked version of win98 but you'd have to do some very serious hacking to do it

Probably have to intstall it on a hard drive, then transfer the image to a pendrive, then load that into a machine so you can do some serious editing to windows on the pendrive, then it might work.Awful lot of work for something that can be done easily in linux.

 

[SHAWN]

most pen drives still arent even a gig yet. And the oens that are, cost some serious dough.

59.99 1gb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820155406

 

[Him]

Oh damn was I wrong. Man, I bought my 64mb pen drive for $40 and THAT was a good deal! Bah, technology sucks.

 

[Joeisalsocool]

Hey horndude, how do you go about putting your entire OS into your RAM.

I thought guys might like to see this. All you need is a USB card reader.

 

[horndude]

Easily, use a boot loader, load kernel,load filesystem into RAM,have the kernel mount the filesystem, and start using it.