[CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

Sun Jan 6 08:13:56 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400.  Much faster, more 
> memory, etc than my old HP nc4010.
> 
> Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the 
> OS is XP).
> 
> The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking.....
> 
> Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map
> 
> /etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive 
> (16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I can get 
> an eval device :) ).

If you can boot from USB, why not get one of the laptop-drive based 
external units that are available up to 250 gigs now and do a full 
install on it?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com