On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 14:28, David Douthitt wrote: > Mike Noyes wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 13:10, Eric Spakman wrote: > >> I don't see any specific need to create an image targeted at usb-hdd flash > >> drives. Older hardware doesn't support usb booting, > > > > We do have minimum requirements, and don't support all old hardware. I'm > > just suggesting we evaluate our minimum requirements again. > > Booting from USB drive would be fantastic for system recovery in a data > center - it would be faster than CD, and smaller. Being smaller means > it could be permanently on hand - and if you use the FAT filesystem, you > can even use it for other things as well between times.
David, Agreed. DSL is doing this already. Damn Small Linux http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, phpwebsite, phpwebsite-comm, sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel