Les Mikesell wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more
memory, etc than my old HP nc4010.
Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive
(the OS is XP).
The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking.....
Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map
/etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive
(16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I can
get an eval device :) ).
If you can boot from USB, why not get one of the laptop-drive based
external units that are available up to 250 gigs now and do a full
install on it?
Duh......
I would have to get one that can be powered from that one USB port
(fairly rare, the few that I have require external power or the power
from a 2nd USB port). I would also have to be able to strap it to the
bottom of the unit for easy management on a plane.
Though if I can get that 32Gb USB flash drive that might almost be
enough....
And too bad not a larger Compact Flash MicroDrive. Hey, wait. I run my
Libretto's DSL off of one.... I can put one in a PCMCIA holder and map
the swap drive to it and.... Now I am cooking. Maybe.
But still down to can XEN run the content of the encrypted drive. How do
I find out?
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