I am looking at getting a Norhtec server (http://www.norhtec.com/index.html) to act as my firewall. It comes with an internal HD, but no CD-ROM. I will be using a USB floppy drive. I am still waiting for the hardware, so I can't test things yet.
I already figure that I will have to recompile my kernel to support the USB floppy. Not a problem.
I also wanted to keep alot of the security of having the packages on CD, so I was thinking of using an ISO image on the HD. Normally you need to add the loopback device, which I don't think will be a problem.
I figure that I will boot from the floppy, and then treat the ISO image on /dev/hda1/dachimg.iso as the CD-Rom. That will hopefully give me the BOBW (Best of Both Worlds), using the hard drive (since I don't have a CD-Rom) and having the security of the CD-Rom (or most of it). This will also make the upgrade easier when Dachstein is updated, as I only have to replace the isoimage on the harddrive.
Does anyone know off hand if a pkgpath option of /dev/hda1/dachimg.iso:loop or /dev/hda1/dachimg.iso:iso9660 should work in syslinux.cfg? I currently have /dev/hda:iso9660.
After the system starts booting, I figure I can easily mount (via fstab) the image as /cdrom, so I am just concerned what happens during the boot process, prior to reading fstab.
Cheers -edt ________________________________________________ Edward Tetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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