Re: CD (or compact flash etc) booted XPLmedianet/XPLHAL

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure whether this is flexible enough for what you'll need, but you
could take a look
at
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
for a windows system you can boot from CD

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "michael.furlong" <otherlists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 12:10 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_xpl] CD (or compact flash etc) booted XPLmedianet/XPLHAL


> Mal
>
> agree 100% on the apps conversion I think it has to be windows for the
> time being.
>
> On the CD/CF option I have a different view, having a DVD back-up and
> restoring it if needed is ok for thee and me. But if it is installed
> for a friend or relative or as part of a commercially delivered
> solution then asking the mother/friend/client to do a DVD restore of
> say a hosted image just isn't on.
>
> Therefore a bulletproof as possible solution is preferable.
>
> Mick
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Mal Lansell
> Sent: 24 September 2005 23:34
> To: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] CD (or compact flash etc) booted
> XPLmedianet/XPLHAL
>
>
> Except that you'd need all the other apps converted to Linux too -
> especially xPLMediaNet - and I don't see that happening any time soon!
>
> While booting from a CD or CF card sounds appealing, it's a load of
> hassle and offers minimal benefit over just chucking a hard drive in
> there.  You don't gain any extra stability with a CF boot - you still
> need all those same flaky drivers for the rest of the hardware.  If
> you
> want to be able to restore the state, the easiest thing to do is just
> burn an an image of the configured machines hard drive onto DVD.
>
> Spyware etc mostly comes from web browsing and installing dodgy
> applications (and no xPL apps have spyware in them!), so assuming you
> have a firewall in place, you shouldn't get any on your server
> machine.
> Normal anti-virus software will protect you against the rest.
>
> Mal
>
>
>
> Paul Robinson wrote:
>
> > This is where we could do with xplhal on linux...then a slug
> > (nslu2-linux.org) would have
> > been ideal for this.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "michael.furlong" <otherlists@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:06 PM
> > Subject: [ukha_xpl] CD (or compact flash etc) booted
> XPLmedianet/XPLHAL
> >
> >
> > > Just wondering if this sounds possible.....
> > >
> > > A PC (small form factor fanless etc) booting from CD or some
other
> > > non-hard disc device and able to run xplhal and xplmedianet
(plus
> > > maybe some other xpl apps).
> > >
> > > Idea being that it would use a NAS, like maybe a buffalo
> terastation,
> > > to access MP3s and videos etc.
> > >
> > > The reasons for doing this is to get away from having a full
blown
> PC
> > > on the network 24/7 and making the whole thing more
bulletproof.
> So if
> > > a problem occurs just reboot the diskless pc and you are
back to
> the
> > > original config.
> > >
> > > One of the reasons for doing this is to remove the
possibility of
> > > virus/spyware/worm infection so I guess another question is
would
> this
> > > actual protect from this? I guess the shares could still
host thes
> > > nasties.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on this?
> > >
> > > Mick




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