Gordon Bos wrote:
> Craig Caughlin wrote:
>
>> 1.)If you're using the Bering-uClibc CD, how do you make changes and then
>> back those up?
>>
> You'll need writeable media ;)
> Although deprecated the 3.5" floppy disks are still a good choice
> because of their write inhibit switch. The only other media I know to
> have this by default are SD flashcards but these may prove to be a lot
> harder to implement.
>
The next time I rebuild I'd use a USB key with a write-protect switch
instead of my current CD & floppy - AFAIK the write-protect switches on
these things are as 'non-overrideable' as the write-protect switch on a
floppy.
This might be a helpful ebay search to find USB key-fobs that have the
somewhat rare 'external write-protect switch' feature:
http://computers.search-desc.ebay.com/usb-write-protect-flash_Drives-Storage_W0QQcatrefZC12QQdfspZ32QQfromZR40QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQftsZ2QQsabfmtsZ1QQsacatZ165QQsaobfmtsZinsifQQsatitleZusbQ20Q22writeQ20protectQ22Q20flash
Some observations from my experience since I'm on the topic:
I use the syslinux advice in setting up my USB as a harddrive (i.e.
having a master boot record and partition table) and then creating a FAT
partition in slot 4 (i.e. in Linux's fdisk I create a new primary
partition, and create "Partition Number" *4*) [
http://syslinux.zytor.com/usbkey.php ]
Even if your USB fob is larger, limit the size of the partition you
create to be 250MB or smaller for greatest boot-from-USB compatibility
(i.e. older hardware - P3, P4 single-core, etc sometimes won't boot from
a partition larger than 250MB)
Good luck!
scott
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