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The phone can present itself as a usb mass storage device (thumb
drive), so if you put an OS image on a partition on the SD card (up
to 32GB), you could have the desktop boot from that.<br>
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Ben<br>
On 04/22/2012 09:09 AM, Travis Bachelder wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks for you input Lionel,
Actually: What I am thinking isn't remote. More like having the operating
system installed onto the GTA04 (outfitted with a larger hardrive of
course). Plug the phone into a computer (via usb perhaps?) then restart
computer to boot from the OS installed onto you slick 60 gb GTA04.
This seems possible, the only hurdle I see is the hardware, what would it
take to outfit a GTA04 phone with a larger hardrive?
Thanks,
Travis
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:07:22 +0100
Subject: Re: GTA04_This is my Fantasy
I am not a specialist and I am not sure to understand what you mean by
'boot linux from any desktop', but I have been experimenting remote
connections lately so my results may interest you.
The idea of remote connection is that you boot your device normally (the
client), and access a remote computer (the host) once the operating system
is running on the client. Usually you only need a very light operating
system so the client machine does not need to be powerful.
I have been using a letux 400 (very small device, 2Gb Flash drive, rather
slow) as a client to connect to my home computer. Since a letux is (really)
not powerful, I dropped the idea of using a full remote desktop but this is
likely to be possible on the GTA04 (see Vino, Remmina and others for remote
desktop applications). Instead of that, I opened some X windows directly
via ssh (use the -X option when you connect with ssh, there is a bit of
fidling around with keys and host authoring). This technique allows you to
control the GUI of a host from a light remote client.
In final I could run some large applications (gimp, blender...) on my
letux and to use them just as if I was using my home computer. Only the GUI
of the application selected appeared on the screen.
I am not sure if that is what you want to do. I can give more details if
you need.
Lionel
On 21 April 2012 00:37, Travis Bachelder <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tbachelder@shively.com"><tbachelder@shively.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Just so everyone knows: I am not a programmer (just a dreamer), with no
grasp on reality in regards to what is feasible or not. I'll leave it to
you (the community) to decide.
I was thinking it would be cool if my imaginary cell phone (I also dream
of one day owning one) had the capabilities to boot linux from any desktop,
via USB, provided it's support. This would grant me access to large
programs such as CAD software, Inventor/AutoCAD, music/movies/photos, from
where ever a desktop computer was available (BIOS Mooch).
I would imagine the phones would need to be outfitted with a small solid
state hard drive (at least 60 gb), and it would be nice if it had the
ability to share media files (music) between QTmoko and Ubuntu (maybe?).
Has anyone ever fantasized about this?
Is it feasible? or Possible?
Thanks,
Travis Bachelder
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