[olug] Compact Flash booting

[Dave Burchell]

Eric Penne says:
> 
> I'm going to try something new before the end of this year.  I
> purchased a compact flash to IDE adapter.  I will install this in my
> router PC.

> Has anybody used a compact flash card as the main hard drive instead of
> booting from floppy or or other mechanical device?  Is it faster?
> Cheaper is out of the question.  I think the solid state way would be
> better since it could give you more room for things like seti :)
> because 8MB in compact flash is cheap and these converters are under 15
> bucks.

Could you point us to some links on the converters and cheap compact flash
cards?  Do the converters work like a PCMCIA (PC Card) drive?

> Possibly another good OLUG presentation.  Somebody should start writing
> these down so I can remember them and maybe give a presentation on
> them.

> Eric


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