Brent Gardner wrote: > Dillabough, Dave wrote: >> Hi Erich, >> >> How much of an issue is having write protection? I can understand that it is >> better in theory but I can't think of a commercial firewall product (Cisco >> PIX, Linksys, DLink etc) that does not use flash and that has any sort of >> write protection. If having boot from R/O media is an issue you could boot >> from CD and save to a floppy. You could also write protect CF media with a >> hardware hack to the cable. With USB/CF systems I always keep a backup of >> the boot media. It's not as simple as a power cycle but I can always get >> back to a known state if I need to although this has yet to be an issue for >> me. So from my perspective this would seem to be a non issue for most users >> and that for those few where it is an issue there are ways around it with >> some extra work. >> >> Obviously I don't have your perspective on the issue and I may be in the >> minority here and while I don't need 2.6 features yet it does seem to me >> that there must be quite a lot of development work that goes into squeezing >> a working system onto a floppy. It would be a shame if this is being done to >> no purpose. >> >> Does anyone on the list boot a system from floppy disk or save config files >> to floppy disk? >> > > I have two systems that are so legacy that they won't boot from a CD. > But don't let them hold back progress. If a 2.6 kernel means better > support for modern NICs and USB devices I'm all for it.
That would still work. One of my first LRP setups booted from floppy and then read additional packages from CDROM. All you need is the boot image, kernel, initrd.lrp and leaf.cfg. With the current kernel that adds up to just over 900k. So how big would this 2.6 kernel be? Gordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
