Both your post and Dave Fox's miss the point of hardware write-protection, unfortunately. Have a look at http://leaf.sourceforge.net and think about building a firewall that you can trust the boot media of... CD-R is good, but who wants to burn a new CD-R everytime something changes? There are work arounds in recent LEAF versions, but the humble floppy disk is still the best choice.
Jack On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 15:32, Dave Laird wrote: > -----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----- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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