> > As you say, there some solutions, e.g., booting off a teeny-tiny flash SSD, > but nothing really satisfactory. Having /boot on a RAID 1 partition is not > really any more satisfactory than that, although it does avoid a separate > device. At one time, I would have booted from floppy, but that is no longer > practical. A boot CD? Not really easily done, but possible. (The trick > would be automating the process. Don't want to require someone to always be > there to hit two arrow keys and Enter, I expect.) >
Maybe IDE-> CF adapter and a 256Mb CF card would do for /boot, as it doesn't need to be very big. Should be possible? I might give this some consideration myself and then have two RAID5 arrays (one for media, one for system/home with LVM perhaps). Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org