Hi Jay, On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Jay Lee wrote:
> -USB Flash Drive connected to motherboard's USB Headers so that it's not > accessible w/o opening the machine. > -BIOS configured to boot via USB (this in itself is a big limit on what > hardware I can use) If you're talking about a desktop computer case here then there's an easier way to do what you want which wouldn't require "boot from USB" capable hardware: IDE -> flash memory adapter Here's one particular IDE -> CompactFlash adapter that I've personally used to make a custom OpenVPN router from an old PC running a mini-Linux distro: http://www.acscontrol.com/Index_ACS.asp?Page=/Pages/Products/CompactFlash/IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm They're relatively cheap, very easy to use as the flash memory then appears as a normal IDE drive to the motherboard, and it can be mounted in a drive bay so as to be easily accessible, or you could stuff it inside the case to not be accessible. HTH, Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net