-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, tallpaul wrote:
I've reports that the latest version of SyQuest's external parallel port EZ135 "floppy" drive is due on the shelves this month. Also reported is the ability to effectively boot off the thing, and thus run whatever OS resides on the SyQuest "floppy" rather than an OS that has to be on the host's hard drive partition.
Weight, under two pounds. Price ~$US250. Capacity 135 Mb formatted. Price of spare disks: $US 20. Take it off a computer. Put it in a briefcase. Carry it with you nicely out of public view. Hook it up to another machine and ....
Question 1: Can you fit linux, pgp, mixmaster, etc. on the 135 Mb disk and have enough useful space left over for a useful amount of data?
I have PGP, mixmaster, and several other crypto programs as well as X, Netscape, the entire Linux kernel, and several other huge programs and files that I never even use on my Linux system, and all of that takes up ~137 Mb. A base Linux system takes up between 10 and 80 Mb, so Linux would fit quite nicely on one of these disks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMO3zeLZc+sv5siulAQFW9AP/c9Bq1jzpb7pL7eTdhngLGJ9OOmDzWJ8u CMI+dJkvhpPCOTfFf22RAO/LE/9x2wxYedmLMPniZfMQ3UIph1esibz8VbN8+IAI IABbeU3pKVdOQEDG5w6QafBNvaiXlSx6EvFyaRf3n0y1pSriV3u1dBeB9If+TVHG MOb3ftp56F0= =e+Ey -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- finger -l markm@voicenet.com for PGP key http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ Fingerprint: bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 Key-ID: 0xF9B22BA5 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT d- s:- a? C++++ U+++>$ P+++ L++(+++) E--- W++(--) N+++ o- K w--- O- M- V-- PS+++>$ PE-(++) Y++ PGP+(++) t-@ 5? X++ R-- tv+ b+++ DI+ D++ G+++ e! h* r! y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------