The use of immunix

[Renee Teunissen <Renee () wittenburg10c nl>]

Dick Visser wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Renee Teunissen wrote:
>
> > The thing I read from booting of a CDROM is also a good choice, I think,
> > this will prevent people from booting from unwanted kernels.
>
> Or adding that old SCSI disk with a kernel to boot from, that is jumpered
> readonly. Also possible with IDE but you have to cut one (which one?) of
> the 40/80 wires of the IDE-cable.....

Ofcourse, you are compleetly right. tftp booting is also an option, if one can
prevent the localnetwork to be compromised. Anyway I would go for the CDROM
for the ease of use, sinds its lots easier to replace a CDROM in case of an
kernel upgrade. On the otherhand, a lot of BIOSes can prevent the bootsector
to be upgraded. We all know if one does this, it will make the system stop,
and therefore getting a DOS, if anyone tries to upgrade the kernel.

Btw what kind of hacks do you guys apply to your kernel / distribution and
what distribution do you use? I'm using the sources of redhat which I rebuild,
but am thinking about using the sources supplied bij immunix, any comments on
this?
Especially the stackguard compiler thingies look very nice - but haven't used
it for primal systems.

Cheers,
Renee.
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