Boyd - problem with the (cheap, < 20 USD ) PCMCIA adapters for CF
cards is that they cannot be used to boot from there; need the card
service/manager of an OS tu run to access them.

> Check the specs. - I thought I saw one that mentioned laptops - and a
> PCMCIA card sounds ideal for swapping large chunks of data (If you did
> have a hard drive - and instead of, if you didn't.)  Chech what the
> existing hard drive interface is, and match it (miniature IDE? or
> PCMCIA?).

The CF card spec.s _do_ make them quite compatible with IDE but
obviously the PCMCIA slots are different and mess up those pin
compatibilities.

FWIW, there was an announcement in the latest issue of a larger German
'putermag for a - new, and maybe even first ?  - DOS (and Win-3x) socket
(TSR?) prog which allows precisely that.  But it's 60 EUR/USD :((
==> www.tssc.de

Finally, on that Ghost/disk_imager/xcopy_all thingy: That's not it
either, therefore; if I understood it well. What's needed is to trick(?)
the BIOS(?) into taking another than the C: drive for booting.

// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-08-04
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read  ==>  http://www.revobild.net

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