[vdr] Re: OT: compact flash to ide adapter for embedded vdr

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:28:19 +0100, "Peter Seyringer"
<dvrproject@seyringer.priv.at> wrote:

> > > then you could use a floppy disk with a kernel on it...
> > 
> > I think a cf disk has more space than a floppy
> ..and a little bit faster!

I have Linux on a small PowerPC module running which boots within a few
seconds. The kernel is in flash memory and everything else is NFS. After
the boot runs a webserver. Instead of using init it just starts a
standalone shell which starts the necessary daemons in background.

Such a standalone system would have a build-in disk anyway. IMHO, such a
system will not boot much faster from CF as from normal ide if nothing
is changed in the boot process. CF flash is *slower* than current ide
disks.

Emil