Re: flash drives for mobile Linux & stuff

[Jerry Kaidor <jerry@tr2.com>]

Eugene Leitl wrote:
> 
> Even small hard drives don't like many g's, so using solid state
> drives which are immune to vibration appears sensible. Besides of 
> PC cards with a few 10 MBytes flash I've seen solutions which emulate 
> an EIDE drive ~40 MBytes, which is more than enough to boot up a
> usable Linux system. It looks like a small board populated with 

*** I just bought a 32-meg Compact Flash card for my digital camera. 
Brand "LexarMedia" - the street price is down to about $80 on these.
64-meg cards are still somewhat pricy, at $180.  But I expect they
will be coming down too.  Bear in mind that these are "Compact Flash"
cards - they are even smaller than PCMCIA cards, with a footprint
the size of a large postage stamp.  Sexy stuff.  

Plugged into my W95 laptop, the CF card  looks just like a disk drive.  I
haven't checked for Linux support of flash cards, but given that Compact
Flash is a public standard, I would be surprised if Linux didn't support it.

   I have personally put together a usable Linux in 20 megs of disk
space.  That included an Xserver and networking.  It did not, however,
include development tools.


                        - Jerry Kaidor ( jerry@tr2.com )
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