Hey guys, I have an interesting idea, and I wanted some feedback from everyone. I recently bought one of those USB pen drives (32MB) to transfer large files from my laptop to my other computers. But the thought occured to me that it could be used to boot Bering as an alternative to DOC, CDROM, or floppy.
There's a lot of pros. They're large enough for the application. 8MB is the smallest that they make them. They are re-writeable and can be write-protected. They are becoming more common to find and buy. The downside is that right now they are somewhat pricey. Per MB, the price is actually higher the smaller you get. Right now they are about $25 for a 8MB, but you can probaly get them cheaper on ebay. Also, I think most manufacturers have stopped making the smaller ones. What I don't really know is how to boot off a pen drive. I assume that you would need to load the USB modules and set it up in linux. The trick then is to get it to the machine to boot from USB. The newer motherboards will allow you to boot off USB devices. The older ones (which most of us use for our Bering installs) probably won't. I suppose you could use other media to start the boot, but that would defeat the purpose of using the microdrive. Any thoughts? Minh __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
