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To begin with: I'm writing this worklog in English, as there is very little information about this subject on the intarnetZ, and I want to make my contribution. This article is mainly about installing DSL on a Compact Flash card, and performance of the CF card versus a regular hard drive.

 

I ordered sku.10310 from DealExtreme yesterday, and expect it to arrive about two weeks from now. That pending, I'd like to say a few words about Damn Small Linux. It's a Linux distribution that takes 50 MB of disk space. It's great. Nuff said.

 

I, myself, donated 1 USD on this page. So should you. (press "make a donation").

 

As to the computer I'm going to mod, it's one of the best computers as of the year 2000. It's the Dell Latitude L400. 700 MHz of RAW power, matched with 128 MBs of RAM, and a ATI RAGE Mobility card with the staggering 4 MBs of memory. Thats even SICK for todays standards. Not. It's got a compact and nice body though, and it's boasting a great keyboard, and a 12" 1024x768, whick will be great for my usage.

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The idea is to get this computer to be a snappy computer for programming java. Since I'm using a CF card with only 4 GBs of memory, and the fact that the computer is specced like a pre-1990s LADA, DSL is the one and only OS for this computer. Being so that DSL runs directly from the RAM, the slower(?) CF-card is no obstacle for me on my way to kicking some oracle ass.

 

I've previously installed BlueTooth in the computer in a stupid way, and will probably fix this in the worklog. I'm studying electronics, so I can ask my professors about some miracle solution to how I can have BT and USB on the same port(som kind of switch using transistors or some shit).

 

As the internal harddrive as of now is fucked, I couldn't install DSL. Running it from a CD though, worked nice and snappy. So my expectations are high!

 

Well, that pretty much concludes this first post. Later, I will go into the installation of DSL, and reviewing the performance of the CF-card. I might even install wireless network inside the machine. Until then, stay crispy :ph34r:

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And we are finnish! (Hoho, Norwegian joke)

 

I started with a 2.5 inch IDE hdd from the computer. It was 10 GB, so I didn't really mind cutting it up.

 

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Then I cut that shait into pieces

 

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I put the CF-card and the adapter in a anti-static bag to prevent shortcuts.

 

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Then I mounted the CF card inside the HDD-shell inside the HDD-tray. The HDD-shell is for mounting purposes only.

 

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And voila!

 

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DSL is a pain to install. I used this guide to make it work! All others failed.

 

Here is the guide, for ease of access:

 

 

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