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Zweitaktmotor:
Hi, Many thanks for all your tips which I will try one-by-one.

My laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-B3XP. It was due to go to the scrap heap when I got hold of it. I like it because it is sturdy (I use it outdoors!) and works well with TC. If it breaks, it would not be a big loss.

It has the following specs:

1GHz processor (good)
512 MB RAM (sufficient)
CD/DVD drive (was faulty but had one to replace)
2.5" HD slot (empty, I like the fact that I do not have any mechanical parts moving, long battery life!)
2 USB slots (not recognised for booting)
1 SONY Memory Stick Pro slot (not recognised by Linux at all, I would love to put TC on a 128 MB stick that I have!)
1 PCMCIA slot (now occupied by an old SD card reader with a 2 GB card, slot is not recognised as a boot device and would need special drivers under DOS)

One peculiar characteristic is that this model was so closely integrated with WinXP, that many configuration options were only accessible from a Win utility program (was on the hd that is no longer there). Even the Phoenix BIOS is very basic and does not give me much to play with.

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For each new version of TC, I copy the cde content to the tce folder on the card edit a menu entry in isolinux.cfg like this:

APPEND initrd=/boot/core.gz loglevel=3 showapps desktop=icewm waitusb=15 tce=sda1 laptop kmap=qwerty/uk

By doing so, I can remove the CD after booting and have the drive free for another disk if needed. It also saves battery power. I can easily get 3 hours life now.

But this is all a bit fiddly. I would rather put the ISO or its contents on the SD card without editing the file and/or wasting so many blank CDs.


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One thing I noticed: Although the machine will not boot from a USB stick, it does recognise an external USB floppy drive as bootable. This may be a way forward, but then I'd have to carry a brick of a drive everywhere I go.


Many thanks so far. Any more thoughts welcome.

aus9:
oops I forgot to mention ultimate boot cd
--contains plop as well

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

curaga:
Instead of a PCMCIA adapter, consider a SD-to-IDE (or CF-to-IDE) one? They go for about ten USD at DX.

Would be bootable, while also staying flash. Also would save boot time from not using the CD (and burning the CD in the first place ;))

Zweitaktmotor:
Ah I forgot about those adapters. Yes, sounds like a good solution.

Many thanks.

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