I have an old laptop which has a floppy and two pcmcia slots that I wanted to use for LRP. It doesn't like 168k disks very much and I liked the speed of booting off a hard disk, but I was not so keen on the fact that the HD is writable.
I came up with an idea, that might make booting off a hard disk slightly more secure and have got a proof of concept working. The basic concept was to create an iso image with the lrp packages and put that on the hard disk. Then with a little hacking of linuxrc, I persuaded it to mount the iso image using loop and then load the additional packages from the iso image. It does make it a lot harder for someone breaking in to change the configuration fo the router. They would need to create their own iso image and replace the one in the router with it. It wouldnt be a good idea to install samba.lrp on such a system. Though it would be possible to get linuxrc to check the md5 checksum of the image before loading, (assumimg you were loading initrd from a write protected floppy) Ive managed to get it working, loading initrd from the floppy and the rest of the modules from the image file. Do you think its worth continuing along these lines? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
