Re: rationale of root access from boot

2007-11-04 Thread Nicolas Deschildre
On 11/4/07, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try init=/bin/bash, now do you think Linux is insecure because it has an init parameter? My point was not about the parameter itself. My point was about the ability to edit the kernel parameters while booting. IIRC lilo won't allow you that. Op

Re: Easier and more reliable ISO downloads, with error correction

2007-11-04 Thread Caroline Ford
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 23:50 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: Anthony Bryan wrote: Hi, Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error