[Nottingham] PiXiE distibution

[Lee]

Now that's cool, and I'm not just talking about the heat generated from
the eden chip....

I'd be very interested in this, I've been looking at these systems too
for low cost wireless linux routers, which as you may or may not know
I'm kinda into at da moment.

So, juding by your email address, I presume you are trying to develop
something to sell for your88 employer....Jasmin...

but my mother told me, never to judge.... so....

or is it just for fun ;-).

and is the name some weird reference to the pixies? 

:-)

Laters,
Lee


On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:43, Michael Erskine wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> After blabbing about my miniature distribution at last night's meeting,
> I thought I should let people take a look at it. it is called "PiXiE"
> and has a temporary home at one of my other projects at...
> 
>    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tvlistings/pixie_1.zip?download 
> 
> This package consists of the /tftpboot dir that resides on a Linux or
> Windows DHCP/boot server. One can take a look at the contents of the
> ramdisk (initrd) by mounting it thus...
> 
>    mount initrd /mnt -t cramfs -o loop
> 
> ...and one may get a better feel of it by...
> 
>    chroot /mnt
> 
> ...but to run it, one would need a Via Eden machine (see
> http://www.mini-itx.com/) -- although theoretically it should run on a
> typical i386 with pxe, via rhine lan, Trident Blade3D gfx, & 256mb ram.
> The startup procedure is pretty straightforward...
> 
> init -> /etc/inittab -> ::sysinit:/etc/pixie.init -> ...
> 
> I would very much like to demonstrate it at the Feb meeting -- by then I
> will have organised a good housing for the little boards.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael.
> 
> 
> Michael Erskine
> Senior Software Engineer
> Jasmin Simtec Limited
> michael.erksine@jasmin.plc.uk
> 
> 
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