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 largely an artificial constraint > now. If for some reason the use of a floppy is required then older > versions of LEAF are still available. >
What about the read-only aspect? I currently boot most of my LEAF machines from CD-ROM and read config from USB flash drive. I've seen precious few USB devices with a write-protect switch. Has the state of boot-from-USB technology advanced to the point that it is reliable across a broad range of BIOSes and USB devices? The last time I tried to make a bootable USB device things were still in the state of "go download this obscure utility from HP and run it in Windows while standing on one foot and sprinkling the blood of a chicken on your machine." And after that it wouldn't boot successfully in half of my machines. Brent Gardner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
