Hi Gary
so that the hdd does not spin up you will need to load any apps that
you want to use on the flash card (thats what i did) also reroute
the vm to the card in the memory control panel.
once all that is done it should be fine . as for the formatting of
the disk prior to loading the system i also did mine as OS extended.
vicki
On Dec 7, 2005, at 1:43 AM, Gary F. Daught wrote:
Greetings. Got my 1GB CompactFlash card and adapter. After a false
start, I remembered not to copy the system folder from the current
startup disk, so I booted from the OS 8.5 CD in the external drive,
and then copied the System Folder and Apps from the hard drive.
Only other set-up glitch was that the wireless card wouldn't work
until I moved it to the lower slot (and moved the CF card to the
upper slot). CF card is set as Startup disk and System Folder shows
the happy Mac face (so appears to be properly "blessed").
Everything appears to working with the CF card as the boot drive
EXCEPT for the fact that whenever I open folders with the "triangle
opener", launch applications or click on links in my web browser
the hard drive spins-up! I suspect this is NOT supposed to be
happening as it defeats the whole purpose of silently running and
battery saving from the CF card. What am I missing?
Also, I noticed that when I had the hard drive set as the Startup
disk and the CF card was inserted as a second disk there wasn't a
clear way for me to Eject the CF card since Cmd-E wouldn't work and
Eject was grayed-out in the Special Menu. I had to use a paper clip
to manually eject the disk during a restart since I couldn't
unmount the drive while in use. Is there a problem here?
(Incidentally, I initially initialized the CF card with OS Extended
format from Erase Disk... Is this OK?)
Thanks for your assistance!
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