On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:48:57 -0400, Larry Brown
<larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com> wrote:
> Thats halarious... This is what I have been using. This is a piece of
> cake. Put the compact flash in an CF-IDE adapter ($15) in the system.
> The compact flash cards are pre-formatted as fat16. Download Bryan's
> recommendation of syslinux and run syslinux on the device file for the
> ide adapter. IE "syslinux /dev/hdc" if it was the master device on the
> secondary ide controller. Double check the man page for syslinux on the
> command. There may be another parameter, but from memory I don't think
> it was more involved than that. Then place syslinux.conf (I believe to
> be the name) on the root of the cf with the necessary entries to boot
> and copy all of your system files over. If you need more help, I have
> been working on perfecting a RH based distro for CF for months and have
> a pretty smooth settup going, just e-mail me directly.
> larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com. Anyone else interested, feel free to
> drop me a note as well.
Larry,
>From this I assume that I should be able to just move all of the files
off of the
floppy to the partition which syslinux will attempt to boot, and it should fly
correct?
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