CC0: SRAM, and booting from CC0: - Questions

[TheGoose]

Folks, I just read through a couple threads about SRAM cards here but no answers I was hoping for:

http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10011
and
http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52297&highlight=sram

My questions are like this:

• You can boot from CC0: true?
• WTF SRAM?
• If I move my SRAM card to virgin A600/1200 nothing installed, can I get it to boot from the CC0: ?
• Has anyone used the CC0: to perform AOS installations ?
• CC0: device must be in ROM, yes?

EDIT - Holly baby Jesus I just found 4MB SRAM for 143.99 ! what the hell?

Nevermind the SRAM specification, got that now...

Ok just figured out most of this, but still curious about 3 and 4 from the list...

[TheGoose]

@Matt, now that is a pretty good idea, still need a floppy though. Well, I may keep an eye around for SRAM but it's just silly expensive to me.

SRAM - I don't care about memory,  just cool to have a one shot way of popping in and setting up a system. Of course you would need real fast ram or accelerator.

4MB - Right, probably not enough to hold all of AOS3.1 - Damn Commodore! They knew we would try this in future. Wish there was a way to hack PrepCard to work with CF media...

I guess what I really want is a new version of our ROM chips that includes CF0: in the way CC0: shows up in the early boot options. I guess that isn't going to happen. Well, in the mean time I will try to see if WB3.1 disks would fit into 4MB.

Or the cool way that DENEB has its flash ram available to store stuff and use at boot time.

[TheGoose]

Well, there is one IDE controller for the PCMCIA slot listed on BBOAH which works with just the ROM driver, i.e. it's bootable. Don't remember the name, though. And it's probably very very rare.

Interesting, will look it up. Wonder how they did that..., thanks.

EDIT ah - cool:

http://www.bboah.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=59&id=2508&artlang=en&highlight=PCMCIA