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mrcrab

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Posted: Dec. 26 2005,16:11

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!

mrcrab

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Posted: Dec. 26 2005,18:29

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

kinetic
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Posted: Dec. 29 2005,00:44

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

cbagger01

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Posted: Dec. 29 2005,20:26

Yes

Frugal . . .
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Posted: Dec. 29 2005,20:33

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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