On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, 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? > Not directly related, but the January issue of 'System Administration' had an interesting article on running your firewall in an init 6 state. I.e., you force the system to go into an "almost" reboot, but disable the scripts that actually down the system.
I used to run my website from a CD by using the Rescue CD howtos as a guide. You'll need a good amount of memory because a ramdisk is required.
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