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On 11/02/11 19:49, Grant Sewell wrote:
ok fair point, as peoplet rightly pointed out X has run in 4 to 8 mb. I guess i am used to gnome and kde, as graphical interfaces, :)On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:38:45 +0000 Paul Sutton wrote:hi ideas wanted please on how to do this i was thinking as this is going to be too low spec to run anything graphicalWhat?! 256Mb of RAM being too little to run a GUI?! Nonsense!
end of the day a computer to burn cd's would be useful, make it easy for someone to use, even better, do this without a gui and it does show that linux can run on anything, be useful and even without a normal gui you can get something useful out of it,
paul
If we install a hard disk and a basic debian along with a cd / dvd recorder could we use it to create copies of ubuntu or what ever from iso what we would need is a script to ask user to inset blank cd-r mount this cd give user a list of isos to choose from user selects and a cd is made to suit, as in iso burned to cd cd unmounts cd ejects script exits it was possible to create nice menus in ms dos, now given shells are far more powerful than dos was i am sure its possible. ok its more complex than that but i am sure someone here can come up with something that would work however if we can make use of as many computers as possible than that is a good thing eh just an idea, paulThat script shouldn't be that hard to accomplish in any scripting language you care to think of. You could use curses if you want a CLI based. I wrote a few scripts a few years back that tried to detect if you had gdialog (now known as zenity), kdialog or just plain ol' dialog, and present the right interface. It wasn't that hard to do. Grant.
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