[Wylug-help] RE: floppy linux distro w/ audio

[Steve King]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Tom Ward wrote:

> Two things spring to mind - firstly, start with a tom's root boot disk,
> cut out of some the network card modules, add in the appropriate sound card
> module, and then try and make some space for mpg321, ogg321 etc. IIRC the OSS
> drivers don't require any userspace stuff, but ALSA drivers do, so use OSS :)

Ok

>
> The other thing I'm thinking is - how much RAM does the machine have, and how
> old is the harddrive?

I think I have about 70 megs ram in that machine

> Could you boot from a ram drive, initialised from the
> hard drive, and then shut down the harddrive? If it's not mounted, and you
> give hdparm some nice settings ( I'm eyeing up -Y ) - it should be silent...

Hmm... I /could/, I guess.  I have have sent a HD to sleep using hdparm
once, not a clever thing to do on a workstation! hehe

Steve