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Posted: July 19 2007,06:40 QUOTE

I have found some imformation here on installing DSL on Compact Flash drives attached as IDE drives.

I am looking at a 2 CF to IDE adapter.  And putting a 'regular' CF card in one holder and either a Hitachi or a Seagate CF mini drive in the other.

Put the 'stable' Linux directories on the CF and Swap, /home, and at least /var/log on the micro drive.

I have seen that not all CF to IDE adapters are the same.  Some do not have a master/slave jumper so you would not be able to boot off the CF without jumping some pins as has been noted elsewhere here.  The adapter MUST be sold as 'bootable'.

But are all CF cards equal?  Can I take the best deal 2 or 4Gb card from ecost's budget countdown and expect to be able to format it with a /boot and an ext3 / partition?

Perhaps more importantly, does ANYONE know about the micro drives?  They are formated was FAT32.  Can they be formatted into 2 partitions, one SWAP and the other LVM.  Then on the LVM you map in all that is 'volatile'?  And can I do that in one partition in LVM or do I set up one as /home, another as /var/log and others as????

So do /dev and /proc really exist on disk or are they just faking it?

So much to learn.  And the 4 decTOPs could be waiting for me when I get home friday.  (Great 4 for 3 sale over at https://store.dataevolution.com/).
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Posted: July 19 2007,08:54 QUOTE

/dev exists, /proc is in memory..

I think micro drives are just smaller HDs and so can be formatted any way wanted..


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