I've used a CD, floppy, DoM, DoC and CF. While DoM, CF and DoC work well, in easy deployment scenarios, CF scores over the rest.
My experience has been the best with a CF reader drive and CF (cold plug though). I bought a IDE-CF convertor which was a PCB version, rigged it up to jut out from the PC and used it to plug in and out CFs without having to open up the machine. Later, I found that CF readers are available in 3 1/2" drive formats for $19! less than what I paid for my convertor (http://mydigitaldiscounts.com). I've now rigged up a system with a Floppy drive, Hard disk and a PCMCIA drive with a PCMCIA CF sleeve. The disk has LEAF installed as hda1 and the card drive is hdc1. I can boot DOS from floppy, fdisk and format the CF, use another partition editor to mark hdc1 as bootable (fdisk allows marking only primary master as bootable if it exists), execute syslinux, copy the files from c: to d: and I have a LEAF CF ready to go. HTH Mohan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erich Titl Sent: 13 January 2003 22:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] DoC or CD Reader Hi At 12:57 13.01.2003 -0300, you wrote: >Hello > >I'm looking for what is less expensive, a CD reader or a DiskOnChip. >Which is the most used DiskOnChip used with Bering? >Does it need a PCMCIA adapter for a desktop PC? Cheapest (and easily available) is most probably a CD. For a Desktop I would recommend a DOM unless you have a DoC socket on your motherboard. HTH Erich ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
