Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:50:04 +0100 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CF harddisk and booting it?
> From: Trench Shoring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CFs work great in small laptops. they seem to speed up things a bit. The > only problems is swap files. > Compact Flash has a limited number or write cycles and a swap file might be > tough on it. > I used on in a Fujitsu stylistic 1000. It was running Winders 3.11. This is what I was thinking of. Many times a swap isn\t needed, one Windows tweak was to set both min and max swap sizes to 0 to disble it. Or one could use a ramdisk of one meg or so, just to have a swap file. And I seem to remember someone somewhere working out how many years a flash disk would survive with consecutive writes... I am getting a little anti-harddisk lately. I have got a Thinkpad with 512 MB of RAM, and am playing around with Damn Small Linux with everything loaded in RAM. Knoppix is nice, but this is fantastic. No harddisk, no cd, everything in RAM. Everything seems to work, I have my Firefox browser and am listening to the radio. Life is sweet. What with 128 MB RAM as the base for todays laptops one can have the whole OS and file system in RAM. And a laptop is perfect as it has a built in UPS. A pity my 50CT has only 32 MB. I have always found W95 to be fast and without problems, but it slows down after about two years use. A reinstall usually gets things up to par again. I feel I need to use Windows because of Autoroute Express and .asf radio feeds, but that might maybe possibly potentially change if I can get my brain to work with a Linux or FreeBSD... As time goes by I find that I am getting web-based. Everything can be done everywhere with data that is not on the terminal. Security wise there are pros and cons for data on- or off-site. Anyway, I was thinking about a CF-based HDD when I saw this: http://www.prestico.com/product4.htm#C.M.-IDE-811CF/R PDFs are available too. The distriutor labels them as supporting boot, and one of these can be delivered with a 44 pin connector. On one of the pics one can see the 44 pin connector soldering pads. Anybody have a link to a Win95 diskless installation tips? A friend mentioned that he used to work somewhere where they booted W95 diskless over the network. Newer windows couldnt because of the swap file had to reside on a disk. I thought of looking into that too. But I am close to installing Damn Small Linux on my Damn Small Libretto... :-) br Franklin ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
