> Find an ide to compact flash adapter.  They're around and cost
> $10-30.  Compact flash's regular interface is very close,
> (identical?), to IDE to begin with so the "adapter" is really just
> traces on a board and a couple of connectors.

> Once you plug it in, it looks like a disk drive to the bios and to
> netbsd.  From there, you just load it as you would a regular disk
> drive.

That's been my experience.  I've never tried booting off one, but I did
once end up with a cheap digital camera that wrote its pictures to CF.
I found a website (something that looked authoritative, a name along
the lines of compactflash.org) that said the interface was electrically
identical to IDE-on-PCMCIA.  I got an adapter (which was cheap, not
surprising if it's just two connectors, some wiring, and a housing) and
plugged it into my laptop's pcmcia, and it showed up very nicely as a
wd drive.

Now in my case I don't know whether the BIOS would be willing to try to
boot from it, since it's behind PCMCIA and the machine is designed to
boot from a wd that's connected elsewhere.  But for a machine not
designed to have any other disk, I'd expect it to Just Work.

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