[ale] PXE Boot from CD?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 17:39 -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:
> That's possible, I just need to find a CF to laptop HD adapter.  Would 
> anyone know if Fry's or somewhere else has them locally?  (Though even 
> driving out there is not something I look forward to)

Doubt Frys has 'em.

Here's some links (first has good pics but in the UK)
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=16
http://www.pcengines.ch/cflash.htm
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp

All of these have an adapter that is used to put a compact flash card in
the place of a laptop hard drive.

Just get the fastest one you can find and be sure to set it with
"noatime" as a boot option (so it won't write the last access time every
time a file is read).
> 
> David
> 
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:27 -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:
> >   
> >> I have an old (P2, IIRC) notebook computer with a dud hard drive that's 
> >> just been sitting around.  While it's not that critical, I thought it 
> >> would be fun to get it working (at least somewhat).  My thoughts were to 
> >> get it to PXE boot with NFS root off my home lan server (which has 
> >> plenty of disk space).  Unfortunately, it has no integrated network, 
> >> only a PCMCIA network card (obviously not directly bootable).  So I 
> >> thought there might be a LiveCD of some sort available to allow PXE 
> >> booting.  It seems fairly simple, but googling has found lots of people 
> >> asking about it, but little in the way of direct answers.
> >>     
> >
> > How about a CF card and hard drive adapter (since the HD is dead
> > anyway)? Put the boot code on the card (or an entire OS - puppy linux is
> > quite small!) and then you can run from the remote server.
> >   
> >> Thanks for your time!
> >> David
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