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Posted: July 19 2004,17:21 QUOTE
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Perfect for the financially challenged road warrior...


Hey that's me. I run two notebooks on CF and two old deskops. That is why I put together and keep enhancing Frugal. That's what I use to install to CF with all the custom options I want. And running DSL on CF via IDE is so much faster than USB. Hard drives are great for storing DATA.
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Posted: July 19 2004,22:21 QUOTE
i've bought myself an old laptop too 200mhz, 32mbram.

DSL works great! and very fast!!!!
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Posted: July 21 2004,23:11 QUOTE
hmm i might have to try this on that old p1-100mhz with no cdrom.

instead of having to swap out the hdd into another laptop every time i need to upgrade/install something.

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Posted: July 26 2004,21:23 QUOTE
Nice idea, but remember: CF cards have a finite number of read/write. I am don't remember how many it is, I suggest you Google it.
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Posted: July 27 2004,09:21 QUOTE
About 10,000, I believe. That's why you should *never* put a swap partition on a CF card, or it'll be dead within the hour.
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