Booting Linux from an internal IDE Zip disk?

[Lincoln Peters]

>From: Brad Cox <brad at linuxbofh.com>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: Booting Linux from an internal IDE Zip disk?
>Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:10:23 -0800
>
[snip]
>
>With 3 T3 lines, it doesn't take more than one incident to justify
>security.  (Look at all the places that have spent money on software
>that keeps people out of cheaper OS's [I believe Lincoln mentioned
>that RCHS tried to do this recently for their windoze boxes].  The
>difference being that those attempts are rather misguided.)  The
>lawsuit or the loss of work from a single DDoS would probably cover
>the cost.

RCHS didn't try to prevent anyone from using other OS's; they just didn't 
consider using anything other than Windows and MacOS.  Of course, I don't 
think that the technician would be happy if he saw Linux running on one of 
the shiny new Windows NT computers (by some coincidence, he still hasn't).

>
>Just my $0.02.
>
>--
>Brad Cox		brad at linuxbofh.com
>Key fingerprint = E741 589E 4A43 DA89 C5AA  B9A3 7E44 18BB C16B F62D
>You dialed 5483.




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