Doesn't matter.  There's really nothing to it.

Find an ide to compact flash adapter.  They're around and cost $10-30. 
Compact flash's regular interface is very close, (identical?), to IDE to 
begin with so the "adapter" is really just traces on a board and a 
couple of connectors.

Once you plug it in, it looks like a disk drive to the bios and to 
netbsd.  From there, you just load it as you would a regular disk drive.

--rich

Charlie Allom wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:52:28PM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> 
>>I recently built a diskless machine, with compact flash, (which looks 
>>like an ide disk), with no problems.  I was able to get the parts I care 
>>about into about 64M, but I think I could cut that in half with a little 
>>work.
>>
> 
> 
> Can you please elaborate with what type of machine, tips etc?
> 
>   C.