GTA provides (or provided) a flash based version of the FW which consists of an IDE interface and place to insert a compact flash card.
Your best choice is to upgrade to the GTA blessed unit. You are most likely going to need their flash disk image since you need something of the right size, etc. to copy to the raw flash IDE in order to end up with a bootable IDE flash drive. In my general experience, specifically working with a team using debian linux to create an appliance, I've learned that booting from a USB flash drive may not work, even if you can boot from a USB CD drive. We didn't bother to solve that problem because burning CDs was sufficient. I mention it because a USB flash drive might be something you'd try and from my experience, I wouldn't expect it to work. Dave Morris On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, JLGuest wrote: > Hate to show my ignorance, but I have never used flash memory for a pc. > > I am an old-timer very familiar with desktop and server sw and hw setup, but > have never had this need before. I have been using a floppy-boot of GTA > firewall for about 6 years, and have had neither need nor interest in > changing it, but I need to modernize my interfaces and speed capability > (currently its on an old Pentium 90 with just a floppy .. hehe) > > I wish to set up my GTA to a flashdrive unit where the pc boots onto GB > straight from the flashdrive as suggested in some of the literature. > > I note that the 512MB storage is available in many types of interfaces and > hw configurations, and have no idea which direction to take. > > What is the best type of memory and PC hardware to use to accomplish this > reliably and effectively. On the surface it seems a motherboard with USB 2.0 > would be simplist, but does the GTA OS readily recognize and boot from USB? > Are there any problems I should be alert to? > > Thanks in advance for any insight (or refer me to a reference document or > web site, etc) ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://archives.gnatbox.com/gb-users/
