On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:46:27AM +0200, Stefan Rotsch wrote: > Am Die, 2003-07-08 um 17.51 schrieb Hugh Saunders: > Hello Hugh, > > > Im attempting to run a laptop [vaio PCG-F304] without a hard disk. The > > plan is to have the root fs on a CF disk in a pcmcia adapter. > Have you ever thought about an IDE-CF adapter? It allows replacing the > laptop's internal HD with a CF card (I hope there is space for an > internal HD in your laptop). The BIOS threatens such an adapter-CF-combo > as a "regular" HD, so you can boot your laptop without any additional > floppies or CD-ROMs. IMHO a quite inexpensive solution (google says > about $20), which could save you the time for figuring out how to fit > all the modules required for PCMCIA on a floppy. yeah, i had seen those on cfide.co.uk and that will be my last solution, but i hope its possible without!
thanks for the suggestion, -- hugh
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