Barry Michels wrote: >I am looking for a way to make a system that is foolproof. The best way I >know to do that is eliminate the hard drive and use a CDROM with all the >settings burned permanently. I need it to allow a PPP connection and use >SCP or SFTP to transfer files. A BBS application with ZModem would also >work, but I also need to be able to remotely print to a parallel port >printer. For that, I was considering using a printer sharing daemon that >would allow a windows98 machine to print to it over the PPP connection. If >a BBS was used, I think a script would have to be run to print a file after >it was uploaded. The system would also have to be able to mount a USB MMC >card reader using VFAT. I think all this could be done with a single >floppy. It doesn't matter to me. Either way, all it's going to be used for >is retrieving the files on the MMC cards and remotely printing the results. > >Can someone point me to some HOWTO's that would get me started? > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Ummm, drop down one more level, there. Live filesystem is nice but look at www.linuxbios.org. How about booting from a DiskOnChip and having no flashing software in the system?
DiskOn Chip goes to 288M or more, but the basic 8M or 16M models would be all you need--then --no CDROM. Civileme
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