[papertyger]

I keep the boot disks to 2003 and Solaris 8 in mine. That way I can reinstall the operating system or recover the root password without wasting time hunting for disks.

Holy Smokes! Do you have to perform those procedures often enough to justify toting that stuff around?

[Milhous]

I keep the boot disks to 2003 and Solaris 8 in mine. That way I can reinstall the operating system or recover the root password without wasting time hunting for disks.

A top dawg in my capitalistic computer centric world, defined by me as the field engineer who services mission critical Walmart Point Of Sale systems, uses a PDA, a notebook, and a Daytimer.

Holy Smokes! Do you have to perform those procedures often enough to justify toting that stuff around?

Better safe than sorry. Many of my clients act awfully careless with their software media. Few things more frustrating than discovering that a CD needed to complete an installation lies 100 miles away at the home office.

Anyhow, it seems to me that a guy could load ISO images into memory expansion cards then use USB or something to boot Intel mobos.