Does modern BIOS allows you to boot from USB key? Or, do you need boot
using floppy? I would like to eliminate harddisk, cdrom, and floppy,
and have a totally solid-state system.

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William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
Linux solution for data processing.

William Park wrote:

> Does modern BIOS allows you to boot from USB key? Or, do you need boot
> using floppy? I would like to eliminate harddisk, cdrom, and floppy,
> and have a totally solid-state system.
>

Such bioses do exist, but are rare.

--
Fred Emmott
(http://www.fredemmott.co.uk)

Hi

> Does modern BIOS allows you to boot from USB key? Or, do you need boot
> using floppy? I would like to eliminate harddisk, cdrom, and floppy,
> and have a totally solid-state system.

I have this kind of bios on Averatec 3200 laptop. Its nice thing. But I
could not make Linux boot from the key Do you know where I can find some
description how to do that?

Thanks
Rafal

"Asmo" <asmodeus@interia.remove.pl> skrev i meddelandet
news:Hsdtd.55537$QJ3.18882@newssvr21.news.prodigy. com...
> Hi
>
>> Does modern BIOS allows you to boot from USB key? Or, do you need boot
>> using floppy? I would like to eliminate harddisk, cdrom, and floppy,
>> and have a totally solid-state system.
>
> I have this kind of bios on Averatec 3200 laptop. Its nice thing. But I
> could not make Linux boot from the key Do you know where I can find
> some
> description how to do that?
>
> Thanks
> Rafal
>
>

http://users.bigpond.net.au/cyberburn/runt.html

Hi

> http://users.bigpond.net.au/cyberburn/runt.html

That is very good book but it does not describe how to secure system "from
inside" - like which files' permissions should I change to make system more
secured, what kind of limits should I set (limits, quota), kernel patches
( openwall ... what else? ). Also I don't like users to feel like in "jail"
like jayjwa have wrote: "It makes people want to break stuff "

Thanks Rafal

Hi

> http://users.bigpond.net.au/cyberburn/runt.html


I would rather like to learn how to do it by myself. Using slackware
packages and kernel.

Thanks
Rafal

>
> "Asmo" <asmodeus@interia.remove.pl> skrev i meddelandet
> news:Hsdtd.55537$QJ3.18882@newssvr21.news.prodigy. com...
>> Hi
>> I have this kind of bios on Averatec 3200 laptop. Its nice thing. But I
>> could not make Linux boot from the key Do you know where I can find
>> some
>> description how to do that?
>>
Check out "damn small linux". It's made to run from a 64MB memory key. They
also have some docs on how they do it, and googling will find you lots
more.

-Robin

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 06:41:57 +0000, William Park wrote:

> Does modern BIOS allows you to boot from USB key? Or, do you need boot
> using floppy? I would like to eliminate harddisk, cdrom, and floppy,
> and have a totally solid-state system.

I have a two year old tower system - 2.4ghzP4. I followed the instructions
for 'feather' linux to install to a flash disk. My bios has a selection
for 'boot menu' - I selected 'usb zip disk' and it booted up properly from
the flash disk - my suggestion: play with it.

> Does modern BIOS allows you to boot from USB key? Or, do you need boot
> using floppy? I would like to eliminate harddisk, cdrom, and floppy,
> and have a totally solid-state system.

If your BIOS does not allow you to, there are IDE->Compact Flash adaptors
around for something like $15. Pop a CF card in, and there you go.

teve

In <alt.os.linux.slackware> Conny <NOSPAMuncurbed@swipnet.se> wrote:
> >> Does modern BIOS allows you to boot from USB key? Or, do you need
> >> boot using floppy? I would like to eliminate harddisk, cdrom, and
> >> floppy, and have a totally solid-state system.
> >
> > I have this kind of bios on Averatec 3200 laptop. Its nice thing.
> > But I could not make Linux boot from the key Do you know where I
> > can find some description how to do that?

> http://users.bigpond.net.au/cyberburn/runt.html

It uses floppy boot, which defeats the intent of having pure silicon
machine. :-)

--
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
Linux solution for data processing.