Hi Scott,
Are there any side effects for using a large card like this? I've only seen a little bit of anecdotal information about using 8gig cards, and much about using the 340mb microdrives.
I have used 5gb, 4gb and 1gb drives. I don't imagine you'll have any issues with any sizes of flash card or microdrive.
With such a large card, what are recommendations for partitioning?
I have a PC running windows here, and a bunch of macs. I'm guessing that for getting it configured, i'll need a Linux live CD for the PC to format the cf card and userland installation. Or am I mistaken?
I've found that Disk Utility in OS X works pretty well, just create a 2 partition scheme with a small DOS partition for installation files. The other partition can be unformatted.
I also got a D-Link DWL-G650 card. I had ordered the DWL-650, but got the G instead. It is a 32bit cardbus card. I'm assuming i should send it back, since I've found nothing that says that this card will work with the z50... The page that mentioned installing 1.5 also mentioned using a DWL-650, which is why I ordered it. Anyone have any commentary about wifi cards?
The z50 has a 16-bit PCMCIA slot, so you can't use a cardbus card. \I use a Linksys WCF11 via a PCMCIA -> CF adapter, and it works great.