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Topic: Make a boot cd for PCMCIA, Join the two boot disks

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meo

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Posted: Nov. 21 2006,19:07

Hi there!

My suggestion is that the two boot disks (boot disk and PCMCIA drivers) for booting a CF-card in a PCMCIA-adapter would be joined in an iso file that could be burned to a cd. There are several reasons. Floppies are disappearing from the market. The newer computers doesn't have a floppy drive. And finally it would be a lot easier to boot a CF-card from a PCMCIA-adapter. It might seem as a waist of space but it turns out cheaper anyway because two floppies (if you can find them) are more expensive than one cd.

Have fun with this wonderful distro; DSL,
meo

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Posted: Nov. 22 2006,08:00

booting from pcmcia is not possible without any subsystem installed onto the hardrive or on floppy or on usb drive (for certains computers)

meo

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Posted: Nov. 22 2006,10:28

Hi there!

Does this mean that it is impossible to start DSL-Embedded on a CF-card in a PCMCIA-adapter with a cd-rom instead of two floppy disks? Logically it doesn't make sense to me but maybe it is so. Any more input in the matter would be highly appreciated.

Have fun out there with DSL,
meo

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Posted: Nov. 23 2006,00:45

What mondes says doesn't make any sense. It's true that most computers won't boot off of PCMCIA, but that's why you started this thread in the first place, meo. I think mondes didn't read it carefully. Either that, or he forgot that you can also boot off of cd-rom.

Your suggestion seems good to me. I bet there might be something on the internet that can do that already. You have to keep in mind that DSL's primary concern is DSL. And DSL already boots off of cd-rom. Care to explain why you want to chain a boot cd to CF, when you could just install the whole thing on CD? I know of a good cd-remastering tutorial... lol.

meo

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Posted: Nov. 23 2006,09:35

Well Winter Knight!

I used to run DSL off of a USB pendrive but they doesn't seem to have a very long lifespan. One that I had died after just a couple of months. A CF-card has a warranty for some 10 years or so. Furthermore my computer has 2 PCMCIA-slots but just one USB port and a PCMCIA-card doesn't have anything sticking out of the computer. It is fully protected inside the computer. Since I have only the slow variant of USB the PCMCIA solution is also a little more responsive. I also have an USB-adapter for CF-cards so this solution is still portable. Finally I like to have a silent environment and the CF-card is absolutely silent and I find it to be a very "cool" solution to. This covers most of the reasons for my choice of using a CF-card. I might also mention that i prefer dsl-embedded which is what I use on my CF-card.

As always have fun with DSL,
meo

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