Bryce C wrote:
>
> 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 schwätzte George Toft so:
> >
> > > 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/unmountable
> > > like a floppy.
> > >
> > > Any advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > As Bryce and Chris suggested you can go with a USB device. I think booting
> > from USB is still a hard to find feature, though.
> >
> > There are IDE->CF adapters out there. A couple of links were posted on the
> > list sometime in the last year.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > There might also be a way to physically remove the 'write' pin.
> >
> > If you have a SCSI->CF ( hallo Alan :) you might be able to physically make
> > the device read-only.
> >
> > You could add a second CF card that is writable for logs.
> >
> > 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 :).
> >
> > Hmmm, LTSP firewall farm... ;-)
> >
> > Hmmm, using a 200MHz processor as an LTSP server and have it be useful :).
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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> Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
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Thank you all for the comments. I like the Compact Flash idea, but may
play with bootable USB. Way cool ideas!
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George Toft
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