[DuoList] Re: 2400 (Gene Osburn)

[Harbourmaster]

>>Greetings. I am also about ready to jump on the CompactFlash 
>>boot-drive bandwagon for my 2400 (which I love!). Just to clarify, 
>>however, when you say "run the OS installer," are you saying I 
>>don't/can't just COPY the OS and apps from my hard drive to the CF 
>>card, and then assign the CF as the boot drive from the Startup 
>>Disk Control Panel? I have to actually INSTALL the OS onto the CF 
>>card first? I have the 1GB hard drive (thinking about up-grading 
>>this, too, after a while), and have it configured just about the 
>>way I want it (running OS 8.6, apps, etc.-even iTunes 1.1 using the 
>>iTunes for OS 8 patch!). I was going to just format the CF card and 
>>then drag all the contents from my HD over. But you seem to be 
>>suggesting that this approach won't work. Could you correct my 
>>impression?
>
>Sure, copying your System Folder will work fine.  I tend to think in 
>terms of fresh install, to get just the System Folder contents 
>wanted/needed for a particular Mac -- nothing more, nothing less.

Copying a system folder from the active startup drive can cause problems.

To ensure a trouble free drag and drop copy you should boot from a 
startup partition (or CD, external drive etc)   other than the one 
you want to use for your drag and drop copy.

I ran my Lombard from a 256MB CF card for some time without trouble 
and with a nice boost in speed.

Now with the drop in price of the larger high speed CF cards I think 
this is a great solution for increased performance with a 2400!

-- 
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