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New 'MAMEBUNTU' Live CD Distro?
HaRuMaN:
You would provide your own roms I'm sure...
mikeyv23:
This would be a great help to those still learning about setting up Linux along for an arcade environment. Count me in as interested and willing to help with testing if needed!!
cosam:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on November 10, 2009, 07:17:13 pm ---You would provide your own roms I'm sure...
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Yes, if you're installing to hard disk you just copy them over. I'm just wondering how you'd access them if your OS is running off a CD, which presumably can't be unmounted. I guess you could put them on the PC's hard disk and mount the file system from the live CD environment. There are other methods too, but I think all of them require some step other than just booting a CD before you'd have a workable system (i.e. one with some games on it).
Silas (son of Silas):
--- Quote from: cosam on November 11, 2009, 04:01:13 am ---
--- Quote from: HarumaN on November 10, 2009, 07:17:13 pm ---You would provide your own roms I'm sure...
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I'm just wondering how you'd access them if your OS is running off a CD, which presumably can't be unmounted.
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I have been experimenting with the minimal install distribution version of Ubuntu, creating a ramdisk into which the OS is loaded, so that once the OS is up and running the CD can be unmounted and the drive used for a ROMS disk. Much the same way that you can with Puppy Linux. You can also boot from USB which allows access to the DVD drive anyway.
And yes.... You provide your own legally owned ROMs.
cosam:
--- Quote from: Silas (son of Silas) on November 11, 2009, 06:09:56 am ---I have been experimenting with the minimal install distribution version of Ubuntu, creating a ramdisk into which the OS is loaded, so that once the OS is up and running the CD can be unmounted and the drive used for a ROMS disk.
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Good stuff. How much memory are we talking about for the RAM disk?
Hopefully I should have a .deb package of my FE soon, and possibly an alternate usplash theme if you're interested (I have one with the MAME logo and a little animated Pac Man as the progress bar).
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