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