Ken,
Greetings. So if I boot my 2400 from, say, an OS CD, then I can just
copy the existing hard drive contents to the CF card?
Thanks,
Gary
>>Greetings. I am also about ready to jump on the CompactFlash
>>boot-drive bandwagon for my 2400 (which I love!). Just to clarify,
>>however, when you say "run the OS installer," are you saying I
>>don't/can't just COPY the OS and apps from my hard drive to the CF
>>card, and then assign the CF as the boot drive from the Startup
>>Disk Control Panel?...snip...
>
>Sure, copying your System Folder will work fine. I tend to think in
>terms of fresh install, to get just the System Folder contents
>wanted/needed for a particular Mac -- nothing more, nothing less.
Copying a system folder from the active startup drive can cause
problems.
To ensure a trouble free drag and drop copy you should boot from a
startup partition (or CD, external drive etc) other than the one
you want to use for your drag and drop copy.
I ran my Lombard from a 256MB CF card for some time without trouble
and with a nice boost in speed.
Now with the drop in price of the larger high speed CF cards I think
this is a great solution for increased performance with a 2400!
--
Aloha, Ken
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