[48241] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Sat May 25 02:57:13 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:04:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <15597.27578.962282.714278@biohazard.demon.algx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dave Israel wrote:
>
> Then why ot boot from a CD-ROM? Sure, it moves, but only for the
> few minutes it takes to boot. Then it spins down and sits idle for
> the n days/weeks/months until the next reboot. It would probably
> last as long as the solid state drive, and would be cheaper.
> The big problem here, of course, is software upgrades.
CD's were the other option I was considering. I'd rather use CD's because
they are more durable than floppies. WRT software upgrades, the only thing
I'd be rebuilding is the kernel - you rebuild the kernel, create an ISO
filesystem, and rip it to CD...
> Personally,
> I'd just use a hard drive and initrd (under linux) and leave the hd
> controller out of the kernel. When it comes time to upgrade, reboot
> to an alternate kernel that has the hd support code. But that's more
> of a discussion for a Linux list than here.
Yup. Topic drift...
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