I have no experience with CF cards, but you can boot from a floppy (the Disktools 2 disk), and they're only 1.4mb, so I assume your 8mb card would be plenty for a minimal system and some utilities. Andy >> You might be able to pick up an old Apple bootable CD drive for cheap. My >> emergency start-up floppy has the disk tools and the cd driver on it so you >> can boot from floppy and read the CD drive. That's what you might want on >> your CF card. > > How big a CF drive should I have? Would 8MB suffice?