Dave
Dillabough, Dave wrote:
> I'm wondering how much of an issue it is to have a system that will fit on a
> floppy. I would think that being able to boot off of a USB drive or a CD/USB
> combo would be more pertinent today given as few machines even come with a
> floppy as standard equipment anymore. USB booting would eliminate the
> futzing around with non standard disk sizes and would be a lot more reliable
> and as well. I have been running some variant of LRP/LEAF since the 2.x days
> both at home and for various work related uses and the most common failure is
> mechanical i.e. drives or fans. I switched to booting off of CF cards and
> fanless power supplies a couple of years ago and am much closer to my goal of
> having a solid state appliance that I can install and ignore. Even buying
> the smallest CF cards available I still need only a small fraction of the
> card to boot LEAF. The world has moved on from the floppy drive and I think
> trying to keep future versions of LEAF small enough to boot from a floppy is l
argely an artificial constraint now. If for some reason the use of a floppy is
required then older versions of LEAF are still available.
do not misinterpret me, I wrote an early HOWTO about using secure flash
disks for leaf :-( and yes, I agree, I live easily with the flash memory
world.
There are 2 main things that are different from a floppy
- size
- write protection
In my eyes, the write protection is the more important factor. There
have been multiple attempts to solve this, amongst it unloading the
device driver.
There has been a experimental 2.6 release on CVS which was hardly used
by anyone, hey, this is an open source project, get your hands dirty.
cheers
Erich
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