I can assure you one thing: if you got no reply, that's because no one
knew a proper answer.

But let me tell you my opinion on the subject:

USB booting device is a fairly new thingy. So far I have only seen it on
Athlon boards, which are for sure overkill for a router/firewall setup.

Instead, I can recommend booting from a Compactflash card which is an
IDE device. Thats what I use now. It works, boots very fast, and is 
supported by all the major boards. 

I have a very old Socket7 VIA board which drives my router.

I am in the process to move to cable/xDSL technology, but since the
major providers here in Portugal insist on providing USB modems, 
I'm reluctant.

So, it is best to stay away from any USB technology for the moment.
Others may say otherwise, but as I said, this is MY opinion.



-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Hammond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:24 PM
To: Blaise Lab; Liste de distribution sur LEAF (Adresse de messagerie)
Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Bering / USB storage key


Hi

I was loosely interested in this and then I noticed that no-one had
responded. 
I don't know much about these devices and I don't have one to test this out 
on, but I wonder if they operate like the USB CF card readers which use the 
usb-storage module. 

Someone has certainly used a USB CF Reader to boot Bering and I've mounted
one 
in Bering in addition to a hard disk.

If you already have one of these devices, you might want to try it. The 
trickiest part might be getting syslinux installed. If you have a linux 
workstation that recognises one of these devices, then you could use that I 
guess.

If you want to try it and want to know which modules I used, let me know.

Darren

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