Using a Flash card.

[Daniel Staal]

--As of April 23, 2008 2:15:50 PM -0700, Peter Hessler is alleged to have 
said:

> There have been an obscene amount of fixes and improvements in the USB
> system (including umass) in the almost 5 years since 3.4.  Not to
> mention all of the other improvements.  In the soon-to-be-released 4.3,
> there have been a number of improvements specifically aimed at CF cards
> and CF readers, including reliability and speed.

--As for the rest, it is mine.

I figured there probably had been.  But I didn't want to go to the trouble 
of upgrading a running system (that provides services others use) just so I 
can immediately trash it (literally) in favor of it's replacement.  I had 
hoped I wouldn't even need to touch the old system to set up the new; the 
only reason I do is because I need something that can write the correct 
filesystem type.  I was honestly surprised the old box even _had_ a USB 
port.

I'll be installing a current system on the new Soekris box.  I just rarely 
upgrade my firewall unless there is a specific reason to do so.  (And there 
hasn't been, for my use.)

At the moment I've got a way to write the card, so all I need to do is 
figure out how to configure a console-only box without a console, (current 
plan: set up a configuration on the card before installing it and using it 
to boot, that lets me finish configuration over ssh) and I'm good.  ;)

Daniel T. Staal

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