[Coco] Does anyone know how to boot a Linux machine straight to a CoCo emulator?

[Francis Swygert]

Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:10:36 -0500
From: Marc Charbonneau <timebandit001 at gmail.com>


Another solution, less radical, is to make it auto-login, then start your
emulator automatically. This way you keep access to the desktop so you can
use other programs. Pretty much every display manager can be made to do this.
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This seems like the best solution. With Mint (Ubuntu based) you can tell it you want to auto-login when installing. To get into normal Linux you just shut down the emulator. 

After this is done, the question is how much can you safely remove without killing or crippling the system?  You can remove any added software for sure. The best bet would be to start with a stripped down version of Linux -- one like DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/). It runs from a 50MB CD and can be run in all-ram mode with as little as 128MB. A quick look at the wiki and forum don't show anything about running in all-ram mode though. Found it! Look in the Wiki under "Booting DSL", then under "Startup Commands". There is a command called "toram" that loads the CD into ram and runs there. No details though, just states you need at least 128MB ram. This article on running Ubuntu in ram helps:BootToRAM - Ubuntu WikiRunning a small system from RAM definitely needs some research. If you can run the base system (such as DSL) and load/run the emulator in ram, it would be very fast and not require much of a computer to run. A small Atom based board or an older dual core Pentium machine, for example -- even a P4!!

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