Awesome! Thanks so much!

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
On Behalf Of Ryan Finnie
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 15:13
To: General Finnix discussion and announcements
Subject: Re: [finnix] Eject-able cd

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Kevin Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just discovered Finnix and I think it's great, as a tech I find it 
> very helpful to be able to load straight into a terminal session and 
> have root already to go, but the one issue I have is that I cannot 
> eject the media and continue to run my tasks. This is important to me 
> because I would like to use Finnix and the terminal command shred to 
> handle all of my data wiping needs. Before I started using Finnix I 
> would use Ubuntu's install media as a live CD, this worked out because 
> I able to start it on several systems at once by letting it load into 
> the system and then ejecting the media and putting it into the next 
> system. Is there anyway to mimic Ubuntu's live CD so that Finnix could be 
> ejected the same way?

Yes, you can specify the "toram" boot option to have Finnix copy itself to RAM 
and eject the CD.

A full list of boot options is available at: http://www.finnix.org/Cheat_codes

RF
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