Sweet. That's more than I knew about it. But as an addendum, you can also do the same thing on a USB key -- the bonus to that being that a lot of modern machines can boot from USB. Faster (and bigger) than a floppy.
Curtis On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 20:36, Brent Graveland wrote: > On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 17:16, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > > On the subject of small distro's like DSL. Anyone know if they can operate > > on Compact flash or similar memory cards? Just thinking if you a writable > > media like a CF card holding your distro as well as offering storage space, > > might be kind of interesting. > > I run OpenBSD on a soekris box from CF. You can get cheap adaptors > (<$20) for laptop and desktop computers and voila! it's an IDE disk :) > > You can easily fit just about any distribution of linux or bsd onto a > cheap CF card with a little bit of work. The only pitfalls I've seen are > getting the boot loaders to work properly, and the fact that flash has > an inherent limit to the number of write cycles. > > You have to make sure that the CF card is mounted read-only when in > operation (log to a remote machine or ram drive) - and you can't swap to > it or you'll kill it in a month. > > It's greatly reliable if mounted readonly though, as there are no moving > parts. Combine it with a mini-itx via fanless board if you have some $$$ > to blow and you have a completely fanless + low power firewall with no > moving parts to fail so easily. > > It's a killer combination! _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
