USB booting :: booting from usb stick @ pcmcia usb hub
i thought you didn't have a floppy drive ?
i still don't have a floppy ;)
but i built bootable cd's, so i thought to take the pcmcia floppys as a sample.
i didn't had the time to tinker with that old notebook ...
but i will later.
thanks for all help!
phew i think i get myself a compact flash to ide adapter and use this as harddrive. ;)
ok,
i now have a compact flash card and a cf to ide adapter ...
i bought a good cf-card, 1gb in size, 120x ...
i made an harddrive install on it and its damn fast and silent!
... very well! ... perfect! ... i thought ... but i was wrong!
because now i know that the cf-cards do wear out after an specific amount of read-write cycles ...
especially swapping will wear it out fast.
so how to reduce the read and write cycles?
the solutions i am thinking about:
a: leave the harddrive install as is and see how long it will last (hmm ... anybody eyperience with that?)
b: leave the harddrive install but swap on an usb stick
c: frugal install - i do not think this will reduce the read/write cycles, because it is mounted from the cf and not from ram.
also a frugal install is very slow!
d: toram install - much too less ram! just 96mb! nogo
e: use the cf card as booting device and run the whole system from an usb stick plugged into the pcmcia usb-adapter.
that solution will reduce the load on the cf card to a minimum, but then i am where i startet! (and i still do not have a clue how to alter the usb or pcmcia boot floppys to load both drivers)
your opinions??
thanks in advance!
i vote for solution (a) cos' i've just bought a cf+ide_adapter and i want to know how they can last too!
The difference is I bought the cheapest brand I could
find (TwinMOS) so I don't mind abusing it. I did a frugal install and do notice it is sluggish on loading and using uci s. It says 140x but I really don't believe it.
I am thinking about using 'noatime' in fstab, it's supposed to reduce disk access for time stamping (i think).
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