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

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

Mal

agree 100% on the apps conversion I think it has to be windows for the
time being.

On the CD/CF option I have a different view, having a DVD back-up and
restoring it if needed is ok for thee and me. But if it is installed
for a friend or relative or as part of a commercially delivered
solution then asking the mother/friend/client to do a DVD restore of
say a hosted image just isn't on.

Therefore a bulletproof as possible solution is preferable.

Mick


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Mal Lansell
Sent: 24 September 2005 23:34
To: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] CD (or compact flash etc) booted
XPLmedianet/XPLHAL


Except that you'd need all the other apps converted to Linux too -
especially xPLMediaNet - and I don't see that happening any time soon!

While booting from a CD or CF card sounds appealing, it's a load of
hassle and offers minimal benefit over just chucking a hard drive in
there.  You don't gain any extra stability with a CF boot - you still
need all those same flaky drivers for the rest of the hardware.  If
you
want to be able to restore the state, the easiest thing to do is just
burn an an image of the configured machines hard drive onto DVD.

Spyware etc mostly comes from web browsing and installing dodgy
applications (and no xPL apps have spyware in them!), so assuming you
have a firewall in place, you shouldn't get any on your server
machine.
Normal anti-virus software will protect you against the rest.

Mal



Paul Robinson wrote:

> 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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