This is what I had in mind to do with it.
I would be able to connect to any pc with usb ports and boot the usb drive. This way I could get
to data or fix problems without messing with the user. Also, I could take my linux dirve with me
to my parents house and run linux programs on someone elses computer.
Can this only work with a laptop?
William
--- "Ian C. Blenke" <icblenke@nks.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 December 2002 08:59, William Coulter wrote:
> > I have an interesting scenario for you guys...
> >
> > I saw in a store an Archos 500204 MP3 Jukebox player. This is a 20 gig
> > hard drive that can store MP3 or files. I was wondering if you could
> > install Linux on the drive? This is the hard part. It is USB. So, in
> > order to make the drive work you would need to be able to boot to a USB
> > drive. Can you do this?
>
> I've seen phoenix laptop BIOSes hook int13 to real-mode boot from a USB
> storage device (floppy drive), but never from a harddrive. That's not to say
> it's not possible, just that you may be forced to use a boot floppy or other
> bootstrap method to get the kernel loaded. Once the kernel is booted, you
> could have all of your filesystems on a USB storage device - Linux wouldn't
> mind in the least.
>
> The harddrive inside that jukebox player is a standard IDE drive. If its mp3
> purpose was ever lost, you could always use the drive inside with your PC
> natively. It is possible for vendors to firmware "lock" such drives, however,
> so I'm not guaranteeing that it will always be easy (you can usually find an
> "unlock" utility from the drive manufacturer, however). For the most part,
> embedded drives really don't care - you're really paying for the utility of
> the shell around the drive anyway.
>
> --
> - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
>
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