Re: Booting from CD-RW disc
Sad Clouds <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:37:10 +0100 Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 01:53:34PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:12 AM John Klos <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > There are things you can buy which are new. The most common would > > > be an IDE to CompactFlash adapter plus a CompactFlash card, as an > > > example. I use lots of SATA SSDs via SATA-IDE adapters. But your > > > point is taken. > > > > Hi John, thanks for the advice, I had no idea such adapters > > existed. I think I'll be getting one soon. > > There are also quite cheap SD card to ATA or (more expensive) SD card > to SCSI adapaters, and since you only want to use them for booting, > performance does not matter. > > Martin Found this on amazon, should be OK just for a boot partition https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eboxer-Micro-Memory-40Pin-Adapter-default/dp/B07L6BJFRT