On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 11:01, Peter Arremann wrote: > On Sunday 04 September 2005 09:47, Andreas Rogge wrote: > > Wouldn't it be much easier to use an IDE Flash Module for that? > > You can get 128 MB IDE Flash for direct plugging to the ATA-Connector on > > the mainboard for as few as 30 € (which is definitely not an issue, if > > you have disk-arrays greater than 2 TB...). > > Not a good idea... CF isn't meant for constant re-writes... you'd have to run > a special filesystem like JFFS that none of the major linux distributions > know how to do as an install... CF sized harddisks aren't much better - they > aren't meant to run 24/7 and so on... First, a USB flash drive should be inexpensive and sufficient. Almost everything these days should boot from USB. As for re-writing, how often do you write anything to /boot? However, like a boot iso, the main problem is just that the scripts to set it up aren't included. The mkbootbootdisk script might do just about the right thing for usb, though. > If you can at all efford it, you should always have a set of mirrored OS disks > and then do raid 0+1 or 5, depending on your space/speed/redundancy needs, > for the data. If you have more than 2TB you might not miss the space, but it seems like a waste to dedicate a whole pair of hard drives to be able to boot, which you might only do once a year or so. I'd consider the ability to generate a bootable iso to be a good thing in any case, now that floppies no longer work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com