> > Flash arrays, hard drives, Compact flash cards, CD-Roms,
> > Zip/LS-120 disks, and other things should be easily supported.
>
> I've taken some steps to getting Linux running on CompactFlash
> (contained in a PCMCIA adapter). I've had NO success. I've had no
> success at all getting the PCMCIA adapters to work outside of Win95
> and better.
>
> On my Windows 3.1 machine, the "hard disk" is recognized but nothing
> happens to it to get it ready. The system is a IBM Thinkpad (one
> once known as a "Butterfly" because of the keyboard sliding apart).
> The software is whatever IBM loads with their system.
>
> On the Win95 system, the disk is there and works well - except the
> system won't boot from PCMCIA, Linux requires a huge PCMCIA support
> and lots of funny-business, Win95 won't let LOADLIN run....
>
> Why all of the grief? Win95 does it quite simply and easily. Isn't
> Linux capable of this? And I thought PCMCIA was going to be
> simple....
It might be simple with a 2.4 kernel which includes built-in support for
PCMCIA. I've booted LRP off CF cards in IDE emulation mode, but have yet to
work with PCMCIA...
Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
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