I am building a mini-ITX box with a Compact Flash to IDE adaptor and 128Mb Compact Flash card instead of a hard drive. By all accounts it'll look just like a hard drive. I hope to install a non-M$ OS which might not be Linux, but instead probably netBSD. So far as I can see, if the OS has a small enough footprint, and care is taken not to 'wear out' the flash by not allowing temp files or logs to be written to the flash drive "it'll just work".
My question to the team is "Has anyone tried this, and how did it go?" Thanks, Andy PS I'm trying to refrain from reminding people of Queen's soundtrack for the Flash Gordon movie, but it's hard not to say it.
