And for one we could see a PIX 515 boot up without the "mouse not
initialized" message ;) I could finally plug one in to make it
happy...rofl.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Ramsey"
To:
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: Information on building a Pix out of a PC [7:19775]
> Well of course the os is proprietery....It's cisco's ....
>
> But it runs on intel architecture, boots from compatible flash, and uses
> standard nics....hence the abillity to run the os from a "pc" Even though
> this pc would have to have the nics that the os supports as well as the
> flash, it should still be possible.
>
> -Patrick
>
> >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 09/14/01 12:51AM >>>
> Unless things have changed in the past year or so, you cannot build a Pix
on
> a PC. The PIX has a proprietary OS, which is specifically touted as NOT
> being portable to a PC platform. Since the OS is proprietary, it is
> considered less subject to attack than those sitting on known and
vulnerable
> (MS & unix) operating systems.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Joe
> In a message dated 9/13/01 10:54:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> a PC....!
>
> Tmuzaina
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