Joe Baker wrote: > Matthew Farley wrote: > >> Joe: >> Are you using a keydisk (USB or partition or whatever)? I've noticed >> the same behaviour you describe when running from IDE without a keydisk >> (seems to work as if it were running from CD whether the media is RO or >> not). Puzzled me, too - I just gave it a USB keydisk and all was well. Hope >> this helps! >> >> -Matt Farley >> >> > Why yes Matt. I am not using a Keydisk. I was thinking of using > another IDE drive as a keydisk. (Or maybe I'll break down and buy a USB > memory stick ). > > I was just thinking there should be a way to run the whole thing off the > hard drive. > Joe,
I would strongly suggest getting a small compact flash device (either a CF card with an ide adapter or a flash device that plugs directly into the ide port. Here's why! If you go this route, you can very easily upgrade to the newest version of Astlinux by pulling out the CF card and replacing it with a new one. The key disk retains all of your stored settings. When you reboot, the only thing that you'd have to do (one time only) is tell grub which option you are using for the key disk. There is an upgrade utility to upgrade in place, but with CF cards being as cheap as they are, this is a safer way. You can always go back and put the previous CF card in to roll back to where you were before. Of course all of this will change when Kristian rolls out runnix. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
