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Offline Gulliver

Re: CC0: SRAM, and booting from CC0: - Questions
« on: June 09, 2010, 04:45:42 AM »
Quote from: Matt_H;563634
A PCMCIA RAM card needs to be prepped as a disk (using PrepCard) before you can boot from it, but otherwise it should work on a stock system. It'll need to have a working battery, of course. Mine doesn't, so it's always recognized as RAM from a cold boot.

I think CC0: tops out with a 4MB card, which may not be enough for a full 3.1 installation (plenty of room for a cut-down install, though). If you need a PCMCIA bootable solution, a workaround that I used for a while was to mount CF0: from the startup-sequence of a bootable floppy (see cfd.lha on Aminet) and then to reassign the system to the CF card. Not truly bootable, but good enough.


Cool, I would love to have a bootable pcmcia sram card. :)
BTW, 4MB is just enough for a complete 3.1 setup (aprox. 3.4MB is required).
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: CC0: SRAM, and booting from CC0: - Questions
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2010, 06:07:40 AM »
Yes, you are right, it is just for the fun factor and the coolness of it. It is not really worth if you see how much a pcmcia sram card costs.