Re: [Thinkpad] CF adapters, again

I thought I might chime in here. Donald, I would bypass the entire booting
from a PCMCIA card thing by just getting one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/IDE-to-CF-Compact-Flash-Adaptor-for-Laptop-44-pins_W0QQitemZ150085532110QQihZ005QQcategoryZ41993QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It is an IDE to CF adapter as you can tell from the title. It actually
replaces the hard drive in the hard drive slot. I have one in an old Dell
and it works just fine with DSL (Damn Small Linux) on it. The issue you may
have is the limited amount of writes on a CF card but the cards tend to fail
before that point anyhow. So, you may not want to have your swap partition
on the CF card because of the limited writes. That's up to you. Good luck.

Keith

On 1/28/07, Donald MacQueen <dmacq@erols.com> wrote:
>
> I recently configured my trusty 570 with Ubuntu server, which was pretty
> painless. The whole install takes just over 500 megs.
>
> The problem is that the hard drive makes an annoying whine, so I am
> toying with the idea of putting the whole thing on a 2 Meg CF card,
> which can be had for ~$40.
>
> The question is, how do I know if the PCMCIA adapter I buy to hold the
> CF card is bootable?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Donald
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