CF cards reduce boot uptime as compared to hard disks, but are way
better than floppies. Its dificult to get CF cards smaller than 128K
now but thats ok.

On 8/23/05, Chris Bagnall <m0n0wall at minotaur dot cc> wrote:
> > I have a m0n0wall firewall at a customers site which is in a 
> > regular tower PC, and he wants to eliminate the use of a hard 
> > drive in preference of running m0n0wall from the cdrom 
> > bootable image. In my opinion, this would be fine except for 
> > the fact that the configuration is stored on floppy.
> 
> Most of the routers we deploy to clients' premises are also mini-tower
> configurations. We tend to use compact flash to IDE adapters (circa-£10 if
> you shop around), then use old 8mb and 16mb compact flash cards that come
> free with cameras. Silent, reliable and doesn't have the GUI delay you
> refer
> to with a floppy drive. Oh, not to mention that CD drives and floppies have
> moving parts which are liable to fail.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
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