Re: Booting from CD-RW disc

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:37:10 +0100
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 01:53:34PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:12 AM John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > There are things you can buy which are new. The most common would
> > > be an IDE to CompactFlash adapter plus a CompactFlash card, as an
> > > example. I use lots of SATA SSDs via SATA-IDE adapters. But your
> > > point is taken.
> > 
> > Hi John, thanks for the advice, I had no idea such adapters
> > existed. I think I'll be getting one soon.
> 
> There are also quite cheap SD card to ATA or (more expensive) SD card
> to SCSI adapaters, and since you only want to use them for booting,
> performance does not matter.
> 
> Martin

Found this on amazon, should be OK just for a boot partition
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eboxer-Micro-Memory-40Pin-Adapter-default/dp/B07L6BJFRT