RE: CD (or compact flash etc) booted XPLmedianet/XPLHAL

["michael.furlong" <otherlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No objection to linux but to be a workable solution this needs to run
other apps in addition to xplhal in particular xplmedianet.

The problem as always is the stability of the windows platform and
it's susceptibility to attack, a CD or other non hard disk boot option
should remove a lot of this.

Mick


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Paul Robinson
Sent: 24 September 2005 23:20
To: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] CD (or compact flash etc) booted
XPLmedianet/XPLHAL


This is where we could do with xplhal on linux...then a slug
(nslu2-linux.org) would have
been ideal for this.

----- Original Message -----
From: "michael.furlong" <otherlists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:06 PM
Subject: [ukha_xpl] CD (or compact flash etc) booted
XPLmedianet/XPLHAL


> Just wondering if this sounds possible.....
>
> A PC (small form factor fanless etc) booting from CD or some other
> non-hard disc device and able to run xplhal and xplmedianet (plus
> maybe some other xpl apps).
>
> Idea being that it would use a NAS, like maybe a buffalo
terastation,
> to access MP3s and videos etc.
>
> The reasons for doing this is to get away from having a full blown
PC
> on the network 24/7 and making the whole thing more bulletproof. So
if
> a problem occurs just reboot the diskless pc and you are back to the
> original config.
>
> One of the reasons for doing this is to remove the possibility of
> virus/spyware/worm infection so I guess another question is would
this
> actual protect from this? I guess the shares could still host thes
> nasties.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Mick




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