Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:24:52 +0100 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: NFS ... |
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On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 09:11:22PM +0000, Riley Williams wrote: > The systems here are all set up to boot off a boot ROM on the network > cards, booting directly into WinNT in each case. Several of us > regularly boot them into Linux instead, having set up a boot floppy > which gets used in preference to the boot ROM if there's one inserted, > and its amazing how much can be done on a Linux system that's limited > to a single floppy in size... > > My experience with boot ROMs has been that they almost always check > whether there's a floppy in the primary floppy drive that's bootable, > and boot off it if so, and off the network if not...
I created them myselves some time ago. (There was a package to to that, but I don't have it's name in mind.) I think there was an option to tell the EPROM when to boot: On BIOS init or after. I configured them to not allow floppy boot, but I don't know whether I checked that. I will do that. It would be too easy to put a packet sniffer on a DOS disk. It would be still possible to plug in a laptop, of course, as the network cables are freely accessible. And while root always uses ssh, I also don't want innocent users which don't to loose their account.
Thanks for pointing this out. -- Kurt Garloff <K.Garloff@ping.de> (Dortmund, FRG) PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff
There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux development. I.e. the quality is too high and the speed is too high, in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone else has already done it and is just about to release his patch to Linus soon... [From a posting of Tigran Aivazian to linux-kernel, XXXX = disk stat]
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