Hi, I was wondering if anybody has had any success installing an RPM/Redhat based rescue/forensics environment on a flash memory [EEPROM] pen drive. The SLAX distribution, a live-CD version of Slackware, has a small environment called "Frodo" which works fine. It is about 40 Megabytes and fits on my 128 MB Apacer "Handy Steno", which leaves me plenty of room for anti-virus tools etc to fix up "Windoze" client machines. [Yeh, I know, they shouldn't be using Microsoft crap anymore, but some people enjoy their bad habits.] At the moment I am trying to make a "dual-boot" Fedora / XPProf rescue system based a basic Fedora system and an XP rescue system made from Bart's Boot disk on a one GIG USB drive [ /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda2 ] but I am having trouble fitting it all in. Both partitions have trouble if I try to make the pendrive "read-only". [It has a "hard switch"] Well, no surprise there as far as Windows is concerned, but I am puzzled by Linux not liking a "read-only" "hard drive", as I am using part of RAM for my swap file, with some RAM space for /etc and /var as well. The idea is to protect the Linux partition from rootkits etc, and the windoze part from viruses, by making as much as posible "read-only", like a live-CD environment. I mainly want to use an RPM-based distro, as I prefer the utilities. Has anybody else out there fooled with this? Rob Hunter RHCT -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
