DSL Tips and Tricks :: HOW: CF Card installation (IDE adaptor)?



Roberts -

I did create a CF install card as you mentioned and it works fine but I did run into one issue I never could resolve.  

When I have loaded DSL on other systems I usually create three partitions hda1 - swap, hda2 - boot and hda3 for home opt etc. using grub  However using option five I could not seem to get my home and opt directories to properly mount on hda3.  After a bit I gave up and just put everthing hda2 leaving hda1 as the swap partition.  I used a 1GB CF card and was trying to set the partition to hda1 - 125M, hda2 - 100M boot and the rest for hda3.  Is there a trick to this or did I make some silly mistake?  Thanks.
It is not designed for that particular setup.
With CF I would not place a swap partition on it.
With CF I would not place persistent home and opt on it.

CF has limited number of writes.
Swap on CF will clearly shorten the life of the CF.
Persistent home and and opt will also clearly place an undue strain on CF, especially with cache type files.

Therefore the simple lilo setup and use backup/restore. The backup/restore is much less strain on CF. Also, it is the reason that I would never suggest to put extensions mixed in with backup. Extensions are large static apps that should be written only once to either the /cdrom, the boot device on the CF, or to a second partition of the CF and then use the mydsl boot option to specify.

Hope this helps explain  the design concept that I used to make this.

I know we need documentation to explain why certain things are setup the way that they are.
Oh oh much new info.
Thank you very very much.
In the moment I have my new Mini-ITX system I will try to check this new setups.
(MOREX 3688 EPIA ME6000 LVDS, Mini-ITX, without fan)

Anyway, DSL impressed me! :)
Roberts - Yes x-ray is right, great information and OS. Things I did not think aobut. Thanks.
Today is a good day :-) I got my:
MOREX 3688 EPIA ME6000 LVDS, Mini-ITX, without fan

But now I unfortunately have the next (little) problem.
For me it is clear - I should use "Frugal Install".

I booted with CD-ROM and used in the Menu: Apps/Tools/Frugal Install

Then I was asked to put in the "target partition" for example hda1. Therefor I mounted hda1 (window right lower side).

After puting in "hda1" I got the message:
"Sorry system has not detected a linux partition.
You may need ...cfisk..."

How can I go on here?
What do I have to do?

Thanks.
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