Prevent

[Gerald Dachs]

Am Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:43:17 +0100
schrieb Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:

> Gerald Dachs wrote:
> > Quoting Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> > > Luca Di Vizio wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>  I'm making a Live CD (based on Xubuntu) for children. One of the
> > >> requirements is that the internal disks (IDE, Serial ATA and
> > >> SCSI) are not visible to the user, but I want to allow them to
> > >> write on USB disks... I've no idea how to solve this problem...
> > >> please help me!
> > >
> > > Make your own kernel without support for IDE / SATA / SCSI
> > > controllers.
> >
> > No easy task, because he would have to put the whole content of the
> > Live CD into the initrd and let it load into the memory before
> > the kernel starts. Without this controllers the kernel can't access
> > the CD-Rom anymore.
> 
> Arrgh - good catch! Then it would only work with the system on USB
> stick instead of CD. I know that is possible, but not all mainboards
> support booting from USB stick.

Even then he should not switch off EVERY module that has SCSI in the
name, as some of them are need by usb-storage IIRC.

Gerald