If you don't mind making a mod to the inside of your box, you can
get a PC Engines CF->IDE adapter and a suitable sized CF card, and run it
as your boot drive. Once adapted the CF card looks like a regular hard
drive and BIOS's boot straight off em.
- Chad
========== Projects like freebios & openbios & linuxbios & devbios seems to be what you want: a cool linux-bios instead of your. AFAIK it works only for a small number of motherboards Maybe i misunderstood your message, but I thought that it was possible to boot on usb device if the Bios is able to boot from usb-zip. Regards Alain =========== Thanks Chad and Alain :-) Excellent. Will have to look up CF as I do not know what this is. Have you done this? Do not have the ability (but will look into this) Is the USB-zip boot facility standard on PC motherboards of the last two years? The idea is really (though I could not code/script it) to have a Knoppix Linux distro on a USB mem stick with a few programs something like here (with all the other 60 specialist Knoppix distros) http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixCustomizations Such a system could use any modern machine and provide a personal environment with saved files carried on a key ring That is my idea of plug and play . . . :-)Lobster
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