On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:30 pm, Brock Nanson wrote: [...] > As far as using different size CF, I dd'd an 8MB image onto a 16MB card > the other day (none of my 8MB cards could be recognized in this > particular box). No issues that I saw. When I took my usual completed > copy for backup, the new image was 16MB. Go figure! ;-)
Depends on the hardware/disks, I was just indicating that I wouldn't guarantee this process to work on 90% of available hardware rather than saying that it wouldn't work much/most of the time. > I'd like to hear more about how the earlier poster dealt with the > read-only issue. I'd like to find a way to write protect the CF once > the config is all done. I believe this was discussed a few times in the > past, but I don't know if anything was ever resolved. I had thought > that creating a kernel without the write ability would be useful. Build > the box, configure, then replace the kernel on the CF. Next boot it's > write-protected. Not sure if or how easy such a change would be. Look at Wisp-dist, it is run ro. -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
