DSL Embedded :: Booting from CF card slot

I have a new DSL ITX box - way cool! It can be booted successfully from a CF card in a USB CF reader. So far, so good.

The board I have has a CF/PCMCIA slot built-in. How can I get it to boot from the built-in CF slot?

I've looked on the forums but haven't found anything yet.

Thanks!

Found an easy way to do it. I've got an IDE to CF adapter and it boots from hda0 like a regular HDD.

i read that even heavy duty CF cards have a lifespan of only 3 million write cycles...

does a DSL frugal install do anything to minimize the number of writes that occur?

thanks

Yes

What exactly is the purpose of the Frugal distribution?

I'm not sure which way to turn. I need a distribution with Firefox, ssh server, a simple window manager, a touch screen driver, usb camera driver, normal network support for a wired network (maybe a pcmcia wireless card in future) and a Flash Player 7 plugin. I intend to run the browser full screen on startup pointed to a page that only contains a Flash movie.

How would I do that using DSL? Do you create a bare bones distro and then add the applications to a writable part of the CF?

Any direction would be helpful.

Thanks.

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