[bt-devel] Missing bt-printing

[Fred Saalbach]

Martin Gruner wrote:
> 
> > The CD is not only for BibleTime, it's the general Sword CD so making a
> > bootable CD would not so good because it can be also used on Windows.

This is not a huge problem.  If a bootable CD is put into a PC after
windows or linux is already running, it is the same as a normal CD.  The
problem is that the disk would need to run linux entirly from the CD and
system ram without touching the hard drive, for it to be a platform
independant linux CD.  This is supposed to be possible assuming that
enough ram is in the machine, but this will take a high level of skill.  
> 
> I like the idea of a bootable cd. How much space would be left fot
> sword/bt/modules if kde2/qt/X/standard libs are already on there? Can X be
> really preconfigured for any kind of monitor/vga?

I have been told that frame buffer mode / VGA works with almost all
video cards.  As VGA is supported by almost all monitors, there should
not be a monitor problem.
> 
> Maybe a good way inbetween would be to make a bibletime with kde/qt (/X???)
> compiled in and place it in the root of the sword cd? It would then not be
> bootable but would work on most of the distributions. It should be done in a
> way that all the modules on cd are used when starting bibletime.

This is probably somthing that could be done easier than a bootable
platform independant disc.
> 
> What do you think? (Tim, Joachim, others)
> 
> Martin