[Tfug] OK, got a different tech challenge on FOSS voting...

[Jim March]

Let's say we have a LiveCD boot disk that contains Linux plus voting
application.  And at the end of the day it's going to burn data to a CD, so
that probably means a second CD drive needed?

FIRST question: is it possible to do a CD burn on a system that started with
a LiveCD?  (Have the machine be 3gig+ of RAM, create a RAMdisk, copy CD crap
to RAMdisk?, freeing the boot drive?  It would be fast as hell in
operation...)

Assuming the above is NOT possible: can we disable the ability to connect
USB hard disks, memory sticks and the like (maybe kill USBFileSystem?) yet
leave in the ability to burn to a USB-connected CD drive which in turn is
separate from the boot media drive?

The reason for this second question is that the easiest answer as far as
hardware goes is a touchscreen laptop.  That also gives you battery backup
(a needed feature).  Yet you don't want people loading crap off of a memory
stick.  I'm thinking this should be possible, perhaps by restricting the
user's ability to mount certain media types?

Jim
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