From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 29 7:36:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE4A1511F for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 07:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11WKpj-0002uS-00; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:35:52 -0600 Message-ID: <37F223CA.CB690B82@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:35:54 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rudi Opperman Cc: Mike Holling , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help me win the MS-Proxy/ipfw war References: <000F7337.C21325@dtt.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rudi Opperman wrote: > > I understand the benefits of diskless operations - but are floppies/stiffies > such a good idea? Isn't their mtf worse than hdd? Would booting off some other > type of media (zip /cd / 120mbfloppy), configured readonly, be better? Yes. FreeBSD, and consquently picoBSD, now support booting from Disk-On-Chip flash disks, which have very long mttf, especially if you don't write to them very often. Flash capabilities up to 40 MBytes are supported, but flash gets expensive really fast. 2 and 4 MByte solutions seem ideal for booting picoBSD and providing storage for a few configuration files. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message