Re: [leaf-user] Write Protect

2009-08-11 Thread Gordon Bos
Victor McAllister wrote: Write protected hardware requires physical access to the LEAF box. A software write protect has the advantage that you can set and unset the read and write access to the boot media with putty, ssh. I use two scripts loaded by local.lrp. Granted this is a little

Re: [leaf-user] Write Protect

2009-08-11 Thread Victor McAllister
Gordon Bos wrote: Victor McAllister wrote: Write protected hardware requires physical access to the LEAF box. A software write protect has the advantage that you can set and unset the read and write access to the boot media with putty, ssh. I use two scripts loaded by local.lrp.

Re: [leaf-user] Write Protect

2009-08-11 Thread Mike Noyes
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 19:40 -0700, Victor McAllister wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 09:27 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: You can obtain a write protect hardware option fairly easy now. It's not like it was seven years ago, when a hardware hack (ADM module using the LD017 controller chip) was

Re: [leaf-user] Project Admin

2009-08-11 Thread Tom Erjavec
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

Re: [leaf-user] Write Protect

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Rogers
Write protected hardware requires physical access to the LEAF box. A software write protect has the advantage that you can set and unset the read and write access to the boot media with putty, ssh. I use two If you can, then somebody else can. Ultimately, there's no software scheme that

Re: [leaf-user] Write Protect

2009-08-11 Thread Mike Noyes
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 08:53 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: Write protected hardware requires physical access to the LEAF box. A software write protect has the advantage that you can set and unset the read and write access to the boot media with putty, ssh. I use two If you can, then

Re: [leaf-user] Write Protect

2009-08-11 Thread Mike Noyes
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:02 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 14:39 -0500, Ralph Green wrote: This is pretty interesting. I thought no one was making them with write protect anymore. I have been using a USB to SD card adapter and SD cards, because the SD cards usually have