From: Paul Rubin (phr_at_netcom.com)
Date: Wed Sep 03 1997 - 01:56:12 EDT
Flash cards work real well, but their expensive! I got my 5MB card
(mine is a genuine IBM, like 50% of my hardware!), and it installed
easily for OS/2, and DOS when I had it in my machine. I paid about
90 bucks for it from a surplus place, but the retail places should be
lowering to that range about now.
Thanks. I got a couple of IBM 10 MB cards for $150 each last year,
but you can get them for around $100 now surplus. IBM cards are
actually made by Sandisk. Larger cards seem to be around $12.50/MB.
I've had the idea of doing a Linux installation using a 20 MB ramdisk
to hold system files (so they can vanish at shutdown and be restored
>from HD at reboot) and a 10 MB flash card for user files. But
that's only 30 MB of space, not much for Linux; and it requires
hacking up the software in various ways to split the system across
three file systems (flash, ram, and HD). So the easiest way is
probably to just buy a large, expensive flash card. If my financial
condition improves in the next year I'll seriously consider it.
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