You are right.  Even a stripped down OSX wont fit on two GB.  My suggestion....a stripped array of 2x 2GB cards.  That would be sick.  I see its in a laptop too, very cool.  More pics please!

Hey There Gang,

While I agree that a 4GB card would be optimum there results a problem the we economist use often "sunk costs", meaning that 4GB cards are expensive and frying another one would cost me almost as much as I purchased the G3 iBook for.

As it stand currently I have a really realy stripped down version that seems to still boot (I havent thrown away to many files I guess) that weighs in around 1.65GB which even with formating should fit on that card, as far as a swap file or virtual memory that will have to come later.

Given the nature of Flash memory in its current state I did have some questions that maybe you guys could answer:

    1.) If there a way to set the write disk diffent than the boot disk? Maybe if I got a microdrive i could use that for the swap files, and just boot from the CF, I mean thats how the Linux Crowd seems to do it I Guess?

    2.) I don't remeber my other question now????
Well Soon as I get the seconf CF I will let you know.

Cheers,
Ben,

If you all wanna help out with purchase of a new card let me know

Theoretically you could.  Thats how I run all my Macs.  Put your OS on one flash card and storage, etc. on another one.  Trick is that there is only one bus for a HD.  You could need to use the optical drive connection to run the second one.  I would love to see you pull it off.  Dont forget to post some pics! 8)

So I got the second card formatted and am commencing to load my OSX_Lite on it, which is really skimpy, I am using the card reader in an hp printer which sofar say "CF Card Error" but disk utiility is soldiering on... So we will see I guess.

Here is teh second question I had actually now that I remember:

How does OS X treat a master slave setup as far as reading and writing?

I have seen several dual card set-ups and am tryinf to find a male one now, nut I am curious as to how they are going to react?

If this works there could be great implications for a tablet setup fr an older iBook.

If anybody has any ideas send them my way I am out in the hinterland here.  :-

I gotta goto sleep :

Here are the latest pics, I will tell all tommorow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keynesiandream/

Good Night!  :compute:

From  experience, this does not work.. however, has anybody seen that there is upcomming software for Windows users who will be able to carry their desktop on a stick and plug it into another windows PC and see their desktop , preferences etc?

cheers.

OS X works in mysterious ways....

So the CF Drama lives on till I get frustrated and decide to put the nice new 7200rpm HD in. I tried loading  OS X onto the card again and do have one word of wisdom that I have discovered:

The drives have to be on seperate busses, if they are on the same bus (daisy-chained drives for example) they get in I/O error and you waste 20 minutes.

well I booted again from the card and got a similar response front the last time i did it, even when statting in: regular, safe, and verbose mode. So I tried one last thing

Target Disk Mode

Now this is where things get wierd. So I put the iBook in target disk mode and fired up the my Mac Mini.  Well it gets past the kernel loading, which it didnt directly on the ibook, and proceed to the login screen where it starts up OS X services and then goes to the movie where it thinks its the initial instal and prompts you for the setup. Unfortunately it gets stuck at the keyboady layout screen.

So its stuck there, and I have had to hard power it down at this point, but its a bit further, than before. So obviousy there is something different about how OS X treats a firewire drive as opposed to the internal one, that lets it get a bit further in the start up process. As well clearly this is where the technology with Vista and Seagate being all over the hybrid Drives.

Until next time...

And please someone comment if you happen to know something about this.

Where did you get your adapter from anyway? I need a small one about that size with no forward footprint for my duo 2300 and microdrive.

I got it off ebay, they are cheapest there by far but you do have to wait, since they are usually shipped from china or they say they are.

This mod reminds me on a few PC mods I did in the past with a CF card. Most CF cards are faster then HDs. They move as fast as the controller can let it. Unless you're running a system with ATA100 and the drive is also ATA100 then there wouldn't be a diffrents.

You can fit on a small copy of OSx onto a 2GB partition. I had my iBook running with it but it crashed after installing a few programs that screwed up the startup. Beleve it or not half of the stuff in OSx you don't really need. Just run the delocalizer program and remove a lot of programs you don't need. After that you can remove a lot of files that Apple tossed in that depend on UNIX software that isn't in use. Also you can remove alot of Frameworks, PrivateFrameworks and Services. Also you can remove a few things from /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /etc, /usr/etc. I wish I still had the kill list I made for files you didn't need for OSx.

Thing is this makes OSx so bare it would be like one of thoses Linux Live CDs.