[olug] Weird Internal HDD Question

Barry Von Ahsen barry at vonahsen.com
Fri Oct 28 15:00:54 UTC 2011


will you be deploying them?  could you just unplug/remove the hdd?

is there a wyse-type dumb terminal that could boot from usb?  (but may 
have the same writability issue)


-barry


On 10/28/2011 9:56 AM, Chad Homan wrote:
> So I working on a secure kiosk style liveCD and I want to disable access to
> the internal HDD.
> I am thinking of hacking /bin/mount a bit to exit it "sda" is attempted as a
> device to mount.
>
> Short of re-compiling the kernel, any other suggestions.  Personally I would
> like a kernel flag
> passed at boot by grub during the boot.  but my googleFU is weak this
> morning.
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Chad Homan<choman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Seem like good odds
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hurley, Rod<RHurley at tenaska.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> 85 to 1
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Chad Homan
>>> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:45 AM
>>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>>> Subject: [olug] Weird Internal HDD Question
>>>
>>> Hey all
>>>
>>> strange question time.
>>>
>>> What are the odds of an internal HDD being referenced as something other
>>> than sda in today's world?
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