Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Q: IDE Flash Boot?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Mon, July 2, 2007 12:22, Bruce Smith wrote:
>> I need a firewall, and I have an old 486 with 32 MB RAM (fully
>> loaded).  It doesn't support USB.  I like the idea of "no moving parts"
>> for reliability, and I've had good luck with IDE flash drives using
>> other OSes.  You can boot off them, etc. - they appear to be an ordinary
>> IDE drive.
>>
>
> I've run DL from a IDE compact flash drive before, although not on
> something that slow and low on memory.  Use the install-on-usb script to
> install it on the IDE flash just like you would a USB flash.
>
>> It seems like I could set Devil Linux up to boot from an IDE flash
>> drive and also store the configuration file there (I'm not sure whether
>> you can make a flash drive read-only; I hope so).
>
> Even if it doesn't have a read-only switch, the install-on-usb script
> copies over the ISO image, which makes the root partition iso9660, which
> can't be written to with normal filesystem functions anyway.
>
>> Does this sound reasonable?
>>
>
> Can't hurt to try!  :-)

It's gonna be tight with 32MB, you won't be able to run much on the box.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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