I used LEAF from version 2.x on an IDE flash adapter since my first installation, using Eric's instructions. Thanks, Eric! To persuade my first flash to boot was a long lasting pain for me, especially the boot process, but it was worth every minute of it. Later, moving on to a real solid state platform, like Soekris, was another effort with a serial console. PC Engines WRAP board gave me some more trouble than Soekris. But all of it was rewarded with a great feeling thet there are no mechanical parts involved and that the power consumption was only about 4W. Today, setting up a flash installation, either into a CF or into a DoM module, is a breeze. Especially on mini-ITX boards with VGA consoles.
Therefore I warmly recommend moving into the flash world. Using well documented LEAF procedures from the Net, setup can be saved into a different partition on a flash, for more security. Removing IDE or SCSI drivers from RAM disk enables the flash installation to be less accessible to an intruder. And keeping the installation in a RAM disk prevents the flash from wearing out by frequent writing to it. Moving into flashes, enables also more sophisticated applications on the LEAF platform. I am still using Dansguardian, which is free licensed for home use, on 2.x platform and I am sorry it has not been compiled for 3.x platform. On another box I am running a remote NAS through OpenVPN, all running from flash. Here I'd appreciate if Power Management module was available for the kernel in LEAF. Yet another LEAF box serves me as a solid state web server. LEAF in a flash is a brilliant platform. :-) Tom ======== snip =================== >> I'm interested in the CF media or moving off old PC platforms to something > > like the Alix platform. But that is a lot of hardware/low level software > > learning curve. ======== snip =================== ======== snip =================== >> 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. ======== snip =================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
