Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-21 Thread Bill Roberts
On 06:51 Wed 21 Jan , Rumen Yotov wrote: On ??, 2004-01-20 at 20:39, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: On 01/20/04 13:34:31, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-21 Thread Azhdeen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 07:26, qwerty wrote: Imagine that there is a security update (kernel, iptables) and you've got to burn a new CD every time that this happens... what if the CD is a CD-RW ? only keep the files for the iso somewhere, and rebuild the CD on the updates. if you build the

[gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a good idea? -- Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Schneider
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:34:31 -0800 Ian Truelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread gabriel
On January 20, 2004 01:34 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Bob White
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:48:47 +0100 Thomas Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:34:31 -0800 Ian Truelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:52:41 -0500 gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a while back i modified an old gentoo 1.2 install cd to do just that. and yes, it's considerably more secure (ie. even if a rootkit gets intalled, a reboot reverts everything back to normal). That was my thinking. the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try this link :-) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57754start=0postdays=0postorder=aschighlight=boot+usb+disksid=a226cea30b235aba314b2f23fe783b8a Ian Truelsen wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:52:41 -0500 gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a while back i modified an old

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?

2004-01-20 Thread qwerty
Ummm I don't like the idea, is better to have a small hd, like those old 1.4gb drives that a just CD. Imagine that there is a security update (kernel, iptables) and you've got to burn a new CD every time that this happens... Also is nice to play trought ssh to another host ;-) On Tue,