Re: [leaf-devel] Almost Write Protected Hard Disk

2004-03-23 Thread Erich Titl
Hi At 18:38 22.03.2004 +, The Meddler wrote: >"Erich Titl" wrote: >>You might even make insmod only available at boot time. >>Then getting access to your harware becomes quite a challenge. > >Hmm... that's food for thought. It would be easier to configure as well. >I could use an admin floppy

Re: [leaf-devel] Almost Write Protected Hard Disk

2004-03-22 Thread Erich Titl
Hi At 19:38 22.03.2004, you wrote: "Erich Titl" wrote: >You might even make insmod only available at boot time. >Then getting access to your harware becomes quite a challenge. Hmm... that's food for thought. It would be easier to configure as well. I could use an admin floppy to load insmod and di

Re: [leaf-devel] Almost Write Protected Hard Disk

2004-03-22 Thread The Meddler
"Erich Titl" wrote: >You might even make insmod only available at boot time. >Then getting access to your harware becomes quite a challenge. Hmm... that's food for thought. It would be easier to configure as well. I could use an admin floppy to load insmod and disk support when I want to reconfigu

Re: [leaf-devel] Almost Write Protected Hard Disk

2004-03-22 Thread Erich Titl
Hi At 16:35 22.03.2004 +, you wrote: >"Erich Titl" wrote: >>Personally I doubt it. Reading and building an ISO filesystem is rather >trivial >>and should your LEAF box ever be compromised replacing the ISO file is >easy. >>I would rather just remove the modules for IDE support from memory at t

Re: [leaf-devel] Almost Write Protected Hard Disk

2004-03-22 Thread The Meddler
"Erich Titl" wrote: >Personally I doubt it. Reading and building an ISO filesystem is rather trivial >and should your LEAF box ever be compromised replacing the ISO file is easy. >I would rather just remove the modules for IDE support from memory at the end >if the init process. Then you need to ei

Re: [leaf-devel] Almost Write Protected Hard Disk

2004-03-21 Thread Erich Titl
Hi At 12:10 21.03.2004 +, The Meddler wrote: >I have an old laptop which has a floppy and two pcmcia slots that I wanted >to use for LRP. It doesn't like 168k disks very much and I liked the speed >of booting off a hard disk, but I was not so keen on the fact that the HD is >writable. > >I cam