Cool.  That is what I thought I might end up doing.  The machine in =
question has only a CF slot, no drives at all, so I would create this =
"disk" on one machine and put it in the other and hope it boots.

If the machine is advertised as being NetBSD compatible and being able to =
boot from the Cf, is there any reason it wouldn't work?

>>> "K. Richard Pixley" <rpixley@nominum.com> 08/16/03 09:21AM >>>
Doesn't matter.  There's really nothing to it.

Find an ide to compact flash adapter.  They're around and cost $10-30.=20
Compact flash's regular interface is very close, (identical?), to IDE =
to=20
begin with so the "adapter" is really just traces on a board and a=20
couple of connectors.

Once you plug it in, it looks like a disk drive to the bios and to=20
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:
>=20
>>I recently built a diskless machine, with compact flash, (which looks=20
>>like an ide disk), with no problems.  I was able to get the parts I =
care=20
>>about into about 64M, but I think I could cut that in half with a =
little=20
>>work.
>>
>=20
>=20
> Can you please elaborate with what type of machine, tips etc?
>=20
>   C.