On Sunday 08 December 2002 04:11 pm, you wrote:
> Minh
>
> At 17:00 07.12.2002, Minh Duong wrote:
> >Hey guys,
> >
> >I have an interesting idea, and I wanted some feedback
> >from everyone.  I recently bought one of those USB pen
> >drives (32MB) to transfer large files from my laptop
> >to my other computers.  But the thought occured to me
> >that it could be used to boot Bering as an alternative
> >to DOC, CDROM, or floppy.
> >
> >There's a lot of pros.  They're large enough for the
> >application.  8MB is the smallest that they make them.
> >  They are re-writeable and can be write-protected.
> >They are becoming more common to find and buy.
>
> This is a strong plus compared to DOM's which are sometimes difficult to
> get, but as you state yourself, USB ist not available on many old
> platforms, but as old motherboards slowly fade away it might be a thing to
> consider.

Someone got one of these to boot ~6 months ago. You can do a leaf-user archive
search, but I don't remember any specifics being included. I just remember
that it has already been done atleast once that I know of.
 
I hope this helps,
-- 
~Lynn Avants
Linux Embedded Firewall Project developer
http://leaf.sourceforge.net


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