Re: [ossig] Firewall

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>]

On 27 Jun 2003, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> It does not run on floppy; it runs *from* floppy and then you can remove
> that floppy. Advantage of floppy: you set it to 'readonly' and there

like you mentioned, pull out the floppy, and there's nothing to rootkit.
:)

> Dinesh is right, of course:
> dd if=imagefile of=/dev/fd0
> and the other way round is the easiest duplication possible.

plus floppies lend the use of discared 386/486/Pentium machines which do
not have cdrom drives. i've had more cdrom drives fail on me than i have
had floppy drives, perhaps that's what causes my bias towards a floppy.

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