[Peeweelinux] Project: Linux powered picture frame. PWL a good match?

[Chris Roger]

At 09:30 AM 1/21/2004, Brian Andrus wrote:
>Well, my 2 cents ...
>
>I tried to get pwl to work as a similar platform and eventually gave up. I
>ended up doing a fresh install of RH 9 and stripping it back. I need to
>strip more or figure out pwl better, but for now it works.
>
>The pros:
>
>It is quick and relatively simple to do
>Easy to replicate if you need to start all over
>I have it all fitting on a 128 mb CF card (I have perl, apache and a few
>other RPMs installed too, you can probably fit it on a smaller one)
>
>The cons:
>You need at least 500 MB to do a minimal install from the RH 9 CDs.
>There are a lot of superfluous programs and files installed.
>
>
>What I did was to install everything to a 512 mb CF, strip it down and then
>cp everything to a smaller CF, run lilo on it and swap it out.
>
>

Could this be done on 2 different computers?
ie, install RH on a HD from CDs, strip it down, then copy everything to a 
CF card (dd?).
A second computer (no CD or HD) will boot off of the CF.

...I guess that is the way PWL does it... build a directory structure with 
the stripped-down
OS in it and load that onto the CF.

-Chris Roger