On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:42:25PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 16:51 2003-07-08 +0100 hat Hugh Saunders geschrieben: > > > >hello, > >Im attempting to run a laptop [vaio PCG-F304] without a hard disk. The > >plan is to have the root fs on a CF disk in a pcmcia adapter. > > CAN YOU BOOT FROM THE PCMCIA ADAPTER ??? no, not unless you have a vfunky bios! my idea was to boot off floppy then have initrd with pcmcia stuff so can then chroot to the flash, but i couldnt get the initrd on the same floppy as the kernel and dont know how you get the kernel to use a seperate initrd disk. but it does look like i'll be getting one of the ide-cf thingies. -- hugh
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