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Is it really that uncommon a feature to find these days? I'd say that
all motherboards that support from Duron 800s and up support it. In
fact, I think even my FW supports booting from a USB device and it's an
Athlon 550. True though, it does depend on how recent the hardware you
use is but if it is being bought "today", you'll be able to do this.
In fact, I don't know why I didn't think of this in the first place,
seeing as I use a gentoo one myself for various odd tasks.
Good luck
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 02:38, der.hans wrote:
> Am 12. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte George Toft so:
>=20
> > I'm looking to create a NMP (No Moving Parts) firewall based on LEAF.
> > To accomplish this, I need something to replace the floppy drive, or an
> > alternate boot device. This something needs to be mountable/unmountabl=
e
> > like a floppy.
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
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> As Bryce and Chris suggested you can go with a USB device. I think bootin=
g
> from USB is still a hard to find feature, though.
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> There are IDE->CF adapters out there. A couple of links were posted on th=
e
> list sometime in the last year.
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> You'd have to make a mechanism to 'eject' the card, but that should work
> fine if you can run from RAM and unmount the device.
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> There might also be a way to physically remove the 'write' pin.
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> If you have a SCSI->CF ( hallo Alan :) you might be able to physically ma=
ke
> the device read-only.
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> You could add a second CF card that is writable for logs.
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> I'm certain you thought of network booting, but it doesn't work for what =
you
> want. Might work for the rest of us, though :).
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> Hmmm, LTSP firewall farm... ;-)
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> Hmmm, using a 200MHz processor as an LTSP server and have it be useful :)=
.
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> ciao,
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> der.hans
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