Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-10 Thread Thomas Göttgens
s.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Jim Wise Gesendet: Samstag, 9. November 2013 00:02 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB? On Nov 8, 2013, at 17:48 , John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/8/2013 2:40 PM, Jim Wise wrote: >> It’s worth noting that Fre

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-09 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/9/2013 2:40 AM, Arun Khan wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Jim Wise wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> >How close is Centos (or the upstream) to being able to run with all but >>> >/var and /tmp readonly? >>> > >> Don't know about CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/9/2013 2:40 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Jim Wise wrote: >> > >> > >> >How close is Centos (or the upstream) to being able to run with all but >> >/var and /tmp readonly? >> > > Don't know about CentOS. However there is Voyage Linux (derivative of > Debian) that r

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-09 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Jim Wise wrote: > > > How close is Centos (or the upstream) to being able to run with all but /var > and /tmp readonly? > Don't know about CentOS. However there is Voyage Linux (derivative of Debian) that runs from an 'ro' filesystem + 'rw' files in ramfs. -- A

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/8/2013 11:01 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > Some of the newer workstation/server boards have an internal USB > (female) connector soldered on to the board; specifically meant for > embedded OS.I have seen it on the Supermicro and Dell systems. personally, I'd as soon use a CF or SD card for this

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Lists wrote: > Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume > you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want > all four bays for a 4-disk RAID5 storage. > > The idea is to use an internal USB adapter and a couple o

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread Jim Wise
On Nov 8, 2013, at 17:48 , John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/8/2013 2:40 PM, Jim Wise wrote: >> It’s worth noting that FreeNAS does more or less exactly this, using a USB >> drive with a more-or-less read-only OS image to serve some number of >> spinning or flash disks. > > yeah, but whats on that

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/8/2013 2:40 PM, Jim Wise wrote: > It’s worth noting that FreeNAS does more or less exactly this, using a USB > drive with a more-or-less read-only OS image to serve some number of spinning > or flash disks. yeah, but whats on that USB stick is mostly a single file thats loaded into a ramd

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread Jim Wise
On Nov 8, 2013, at 17:12 , Lists wrote: > On 11/08/2013 02:06 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 11/8/2013 12:57 PM, Lists wrote: >>> Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume >>> you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want >>> all four bays

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread Lists
On 11/08/2013 02:06 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/8/2013 12:57 PM, Lists wrote: >> Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume >> you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want >> all four bays for a 4-disk RAID5 storage. >> >> The idea is to

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/8/2013 12:57 PM, Lists wrote: > Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume > you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want > all four bays for a 4-disk RAID5 storage. > > The idea is to use an internal USB adapter and a couple of bigger U

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-11-08, Lists wrote: > > The idea is to use an internal USB adapter and a couple of bigger USB > thumb drives to install to, RAID 1 style, freeing up all your external > drive bays. At first, I didn't think that a thumb drive would hold > enough for the O/S, but in actual production use

[CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread Lists
Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want all four bays for a 4-disk RAID5 storage. The idea is to use an internal USB adapter and a couple of bigger USB thumb drives to install to, RAID 1 styl