I have a Epia 5000 and it boot fine from CF. But don't use a CF card
like a harddrive. It will be shorten its life time ...
Instead boot the system into a ramdisk. I'm using 256 MB RAM (128 MB
should be enough) to run my VDR box. 48 MB MB are needed for the ramdisk
of the system. That's all.
I have not harddrive in the box and the recordings are written via the
network to my server ...
This setup sounds nice! Yes, I intended to boot it into a ramdisk. Also
booting from the net would also be an interesting option :-)
What distro are you using? 48Mb sounds like the freepia distro..
Originally it was a small Floppy-Distro (3 MB) that i have build up with
the needed libraries and software. The 48 MB are not full (~40MB) but
i'm too lazy to resize the image everytime i change something. I have
build a development tree for myself that i can recompile easily if i
change something. This will rebuild all software components and sets
optimisations for the used processor in the make process.