On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 22:05, James Sparenberg wrote: ... > One media I've used for small installs that works well is compact > flash. A 64mb cf disk with an adapter shows up as an ide device and you > can boot from it. I had it hooked into an old pentium 233 for a while > (till enough hw died that isn't easy to replace.) It works well, > read/write speeds aren't too bad either. Especially for something like a > firewall/server like I had. > > James
These work great and are the heart of most "appliances", but they're not hardware write-protectable. Just imagine your friendly neighborhood system cracker clearing the boot media and rebooting for you... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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