Dillabough, Dave wrote: > Hi Erich, > > How much of an issue is having write protection? I can understand that it is > better in theory but I can't think of a commercial firewall product (Cisco > PIX, Linksys, DLink etc) that does not use flash and that has any sort of > write protection. If having boot from R/O media is an issue you could boot > from CD and save to a floppy. You could also write protect CF media with a > hardware hack to the cable. With USB/CF systems I always keep a backup of the > boot media. It's not as simple as a power cycle but I can always get back to > a known state if I need to although this has yet to be an issue for me. So > from my perspective this would seem to be a non issue for most users and that > for those few where it is an issue there are ways around it with some extra > work. > > Obviously I don't have your perspective on the issue and I may be in the > minority here and while I don't need 2.6 features yet it does seem to me that > there must be quite a lot of development work that goes into squeezing a > working system onto a floppy. It would be a shame if this is being done to no > purpose. > > Does anyone on the list boot a system from floppy disk or save config files > to floppy disk? >
I have two systems that are so legacy that they won't boot from a CD. But don't let them hold back progress. If a 2.6 kernel means better support for modern NICs and USB devices I'm all for it. 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/
