-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 'Afternoon, Jack...
On Sunday 23 March 2003 03:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > What else would you store usually read-only but occasionally modified > configs on? Why, a slightly-aged Iomega Zip Drive, of course! 8-) It took some juggling, but I even managed to get the blasted zip drive to come up beneath 9.0 as ext2, not fat32 or vfat every single reboot, which took some "fudging", I might add. I can boot from it. (with recent BIOS) I can make it read-only I can carry it to any other Linux box that has one, providing they have learned how to install it, of course. It even shares pretty decently using Samba. My only wish is that the media didn't cost so much, but on the good side, the disks seem (at least to me) to last a long, long time, which is more than I can say about floppy disks. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html An automatic & random thought For the Minute: When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. - -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fkPyaE1ENZP1A28RAvDkAJ0VfnS1Vl2jP06+yswNoQwL6no2xQCfY6nz ZaayNWJ+BXv6fDvmFcNfsSQ= =rgm2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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